Re: X

[Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:44 +0200, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> One of my boxes is running FC5, using a Linuxant driver for the wireless 
> connection to the router. Dureing the entire existence of FC5 I had no 
> problems. After the update to the present kernel ( 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5) 
> the connection to the internet broke down, without obvious reason. Tried 
> to reboot the system, but it hanged on udev. I followed suggestions I 
> found after googling (mainly changing the etc/udev/rules.d files, or 
> putting "acpi=off" in the kernel line of /etc/grub.conf. But neither 
> worked. I reinstalled.
> I configured system-config-network. By the time I got it going I 
> couldn't launch any application. It must have something to do with X, I 
> think. This problem occurs after every reboot: when I have a working 
> network connection I can't start any application.
> Any suggestions are wellcome.
> Peter
> 
You said wireless.  This may be due to updated open source driver for
the card that conflicts with linuxant and the winblows driver.  It
happened to me.

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