Xorg failure after update

[Barry Schiffman]

--- Josh Forman <jforman at post.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I recently installed FC4 on my Acer Travelmate 2304
> notebook.  I spent
> a few hours getting everything I wanted installed
> and configured --
> everything booted normally, I used ndiswrapper to
> get the wireless
> card working, etc.  Since this is my first real
> foray into Linux, I
> was happy to get this far.
> 
> When I used the graphical updater (is this just a
> yum wrapper?),
> however, I chose to install everything, and after an
> hour of downloads
> and updates I restarted the machine.  When it came
> back up, the kernel
> begins to boot normally and then in the middle of
> the boot a messed up
> Acer logo appears on the screen (very distorted),
> and the machine
> hangs.  I've discovered that I can boot at runlevel
> 3 normally into
> text mode, but startx causes the same distorted acer
> logo to appear.
> 
> I ran Xorg - configure and got a message about the
> mouse not being
> recognized.  Since it worked fine before, I'm
> guessing something
> seriously messed up my X install.  Any ideas on what
> could be going
> wrong?
> 
> FYI, I actually reinstalled FC4 from scratch once to
> see if this was a
> one-shot problem, and I get the same behavior
> consistently only after
> running the graphical updater.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Josh
> 

This has been discussed in the Fedora list. You
probably have Intel video, and there is a problem with
the xorg updates. Probably, easier to just revert to
the previous X11 rpms, until a new X11 update is
available.  See the Fedora list for more details.



		
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