Black page instead of login screen-Fedora2

[powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:00 pm, Paul Howarth wrote:
> powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> > Paul, as stated, this happens with any kernel. I guess I'm using whatever
> > nVidia drivers that Fedora recognized the 1st time I installed/booted.
> > Why does this happen with only some kernels..? Shouldn't the developers
> > be looking out for this kind of thing..? Damn annoying.
> >
> > P.S. I don't think it was just the kernel that was updated, as I did a
> > yum update. Cheers.
>
> OK, so it sounds like you're not using the proprietary nvidia drivers.
> Can you boot to runlevel 3 without problems (press "e" in the grub menu
> and append " 3" to end of the line, then press return to boot)?

Knoppix 3.7 to the rescue, again
>
> What do you have in the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
>
Section "Device"
 Identifier  "Videocard0"
 Driver      "nv"
 VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
 BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
EndSection
> P.S. Your computer's clock/timezone appears to be around 14 hours fast.
>
I'm in Tokyo, could that be why..? Cheers.
> Paul.

Mark Sargent.