New Kernel Image

[Antonio Montagnani]

Walt ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 04/02/2006 21:34:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:11, Robert Locke wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 14:19 -0500, Ernest wrote:
>>     
>>> New Kernel image 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
>>> is causing problems with gdm.
>>>
>>> After boot:
>>> the kernel is running, but gdm has crashed at the point where a user
>>> login screen should appear.
>>> All that appears is a blue background speckled with white dots. It
>>> might be that gdm has not crashed, but the boot process has left
>>> something in an incompatible state.
>>>
>>> It is possible to login to this machine, from another desktop, using
>>> ssh. Once logged onto the fedora system and issuing the command
>>> "gdm-restart", the gdm user login screen appears on the fedora system
>>> console.
>>>
>>> What has changed between 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
>>> and 2.6.14-1.1656.FC4?
>>>
>>> Where do I start?
>>> What information is needed?
>>>
>>> System is an older Gateway PIII, 384MB RAM, ATI Radeon graphics card
>>> in the AGP slot.
>>> X.org detects and configures this video card properly. The earlier
>>> kernel worked fine, until the system was booted with  kernel 2.6.15-1.
>>> Now kernel 2.6.14-1 exhibits the same problem.
>>>       
>> You might want to check the archives for the last couple of days.  The
>> problem for some, like me, is actually with the new udev, that was
>> installed along with the new kernel.  In fact, a simple terminal switch
>> was enough to get my gdm login visible.  Ctrl-Alt-F1 followed by
>> Ctrl-Alt-F7.  If it is the same as my problem, you may notice that the
>> text mode terminal login is tiny print, something about probing and
>> activating fb....
>>
>> I fixed mine with an update that should be released shortly to
>> module-init-tools.  You can get it early by doing the following:
>>
>> yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update module-init-tools
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> --Rob
>>     
> Thank you Rob.  Works for me.  AMD 2600+ and ATA 9200 AGP video.
>
>   
Tnx to you guys. You solved my problem too. But anyway I could log by 
Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc and a login window appeared.
My card is a Ati Mobility 9000.

-- 
 Antonio
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