Loging out leaves me at black screen

Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au
Fri May 28 00:14:40 UTC 2004


Can you do anything remotely? I have a similar problem (see the Dell
lattitude C600 thread) and what is happening is a complete hang.

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Roger Sowerby
> Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 6:24 AM
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> Subject: Loging out leaves me at black screen
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>  Installed Fedora Core 2 on a freshly partitioned and
> formatted disk over the weekend. It installed fine and
> I was able to login and use it just fine. The problem
> I'm having is that when I logout from either the KDE
> or Gnome desktops the screen goes blank and I can't do
> anything with it. I tried the Alt+Function keys to see
> if I can get to another virtual terminal but get no
> where. I have an ATI Rage 128 PCI video card and an
> LCD monitor. I set the resolution to 1024 x 768 during
> the install. This same machine was running FC1 just
> fine before the install of FC2. As I said I can start
> the machine, login to the system, and do what ever
> without any problems until I try to logout to shutdown
> or login as another user. After clicking on the logout
> button the screen goes black and then after a couple
> of seconds the mouse cursor disappears and then
> nothing happens...
>    I've tried different resolutions. I've tried
> lowering color depth from millions of colors to
> thousands. I also added the vga=0x317 switch to the
> kernel line in the grub.conf file. It still works fine
> for a while but after I've used the machine for
> several hours it ends up hung at a black sreen after
> logout.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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