NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/29/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Sun October 29 2006 10:08 am, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 09:23 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it
> > > I installed NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6
> > > On reboot, it gets all the way to the second X start and the
> > > screen then just goes black and nothing happens
> > > I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing "a"
> > > when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt
> > > - that didn't work
> > > Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to
> > > same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just
> > > a black screen
> > > Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result
> >
> > Try 'init 3' Ric
>
> It's getting worse. Now, it chokes on X on the first try, right
> after the kernel messages, when it tries to go into the splash
> screen with the progress bar for the boot process - it's just
> going black and stalling - there's a little LED hard drive
> activity, but it doesn't go anywhere - just the black void...

Is this problem specific to Livna's repackaging of the NVIDIA driver,
or is it also present in the official driver package from NVIDIA's
website?

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