on Rawhide, screen goes black when X starts

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 11:26 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
> On 07/13/2009 10:32 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > There's not a whole lot of detail in the log; it just shows that it
> > hangs when loading the vboxvideo driver. As a workaround you could try
> > creating an xorg.conf file and setting the driver to 'vesa' - see
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf . That may
> > avoid the problem.
> 
> There was already an xorg.conf file using the vboxvideo driver, which I
> changed to vesa, and it now works!  Thank you.  Incidentally, when
> installing the VirtualBox guest additions in Rawhide, I get the message
> 
> Warning: unsupported pre-release version of X.Org Server installed.  Not
> installing the X.Org drivers.
> 
> The timestamp on my /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
> file is 2009-06-21, which is probably around the time the problem
> started.  I guess that was the time of the last successful install of
> the drivers.

Yeah, that sounds relevant. Probably the driver you have installed just
won't work with Rawhide's X.org. You could see if there's a command you
can use to try and force the latest VirtualBox driver to be installed,
or just live with vesa...as long as the driver's getting installed as
part of VirtualBox and Rawhide is happily updating to screamingly
bleeding-edge X.org releases, this kind of snafu is likely going to
happen a bit frequently. The vesa driver may be a tad slower, but it
will at least be pretty reliable.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net