Blank Screen After Yum Update (followup to Kevin Kempter) - Solved {sortof}

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 15:27, Noel Murphy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Unfortunately, I joined the list after Kevin Kempter made a similar
> post about this problem just this morning so I couldn't respond to
> his posting.
>
> That being said.....
>
> I have the EXACT same problem as Kevin. However, I struggled with
> this issue a bit over the past few days and have discovered a bit more.
>
> When I update everything, I get into the state like Kevin. My screen
> goes blank, in fact it goes into sleep mode. I can ssh into the
> machine and everything seems to work fine there, but when I do a
> shutdown / reboot, it never does. I think it gets hung trying to
> shutdown a service or something.
>
> Once I'm in this state, I can boot the machine using the FC4 shipping
> kernel (2.6.11....) and everything works again. (Kevin, you may want
> to try this if you don't need an up to date kernel). However, this
> didn't work for me because I needed a more current kernel for my tv-
> tuner card.
>
> If I upgrade my kernel to the latest (2.6.13...), but do not upgrade
> anything else, my machine works fine.
>
> So, it must be a combination of kernel + something else. I admit i
> didn't spend too much time trying to figure out what the "something"
> else was. I'm assuming it was something like the xorg stuff or maybe
> something in KDE.
>
> Kevin, are you running KDE? if not, maybe we could rule that out.
>
> How about hardware?
>
> I have a vanilla PC.
> Intel GLLY MoBo, but have the on board video disabled.
> ATI Radeon 7000, PCI
> 512 MB ram
> 2.2 GHz Celeron
>
> Noel

Noel;

I swapped out the video card and it works fine. The problem was with the ATI 
video card (I had the same one)