Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 14:59 -0500, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I previously posted about a problem with a black screen with Fedora 2 
> after updating via yum. Unfortunately, on Knoppix, where I've been 
> coming to you from, I've lost access to my mail app, hence starting a 
> new thread. Following on from the posts by some that it may be related 
> to my graphic card drivers, nVidia, I installed another card that I had 
> here @ home, ATI Radeon 7500, but, I still get the same, a black screen 
> and where it continually changes back and forth to a text based login, 
> which disappears to quickly for me to actually login. I also went and 
> did a yum update through the recovery cd process, but no luck there, 
> either. Someone mentioned posting some ouput from certain files, but, as 
> I can't access the previous mail, can't know what it was. Paul Howarth, 
> I'n confident you were one who asked for such things. Would you be so 
> kind as to tell me again what it was.? Cheers, and again, sorry for what 
> may seem as a double posting of the same problem.

Now that you've got a new card, you'll need to reconfigure X; did you do
that? If not, boot to runlevel 3, log in as root and run:

# system-config-display --reconfig

Then, try starting X manually:

# startx >X.out 2>X.err

If it works, great; reboot and everything should be fine.
If not, there should be some useful diagnostics in either the X.out
and/or X.err files, which you can look at after rebooting again in
runlevel 3.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>