Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

[Kyle Lanigan]

On 31-Aug-08, at 12:24 PM, Victor wrote:

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>> From: Kyle Lanigan <k.a.lanigan at gmail.com>
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:10:38 AM
>> Subject: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login
>>
>> So I've put in Fedora 9 just the other day, but it doesn't matter  
>> when
>> I login into Fedora 9 after booting up into it, that everything
>> freezes once the login screen goes away after entering my username  
>> and
>> password. I'm not sure what I'm suppose to do to get this working.
>
> Likely a device driver is causing this.  The good news is that since  
> it's so easy to reproduce you should be able to identify the driver,  
> disable it and then start the usual hardware troubleshooting steps  
> ( new driver, new firmware and so on ).  I recommend booting up,  
> then chvt 1 and wait for the crash to happen and see if the output  
> on the screen shows the problem.
>
> I had a similar problem with my wireless card connecting to WPA  
> cards recently. I simply disable wireless at boot time in the BIOS  
> to see if that was the problem. Once I confirmed this I updated  
> firmware and drivers and the problem went away.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --Victor

Okay. I can see what I can try to do with that. What are some good  
device drivers to try disabling first? I'm not all that comfortable in  
the BIOS, so I don't want to screw anything up.

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>> Kyle Lanigan
>> k.a.lanigan at gmail.com
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Kyle Lanigan
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