Unable to login after latest FC10 updates (i386 on Dell GX270)

[Waleed Harbi]

Try reinstall the driver for your ATI. Then change the driver name in
xorg.conf file from VESA to ATIXXXX < driver name. After that switch to
level 5 via init 5 command.


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Yours,
Waleed Harbi
If you want your goals to come true, don't sleep.


On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Hello Toma,
>
> Friday, December 26, 2008, 6:11:43 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Hi, everybody!
> > So, I,m not alone in this problem.
> > I'm runin' F10 on an old IBM Intellistation,
> > IDE HDD(originally it was SCSI)
> > 600MHz CPU & 500 Mb RAM,
> > after Ubuntu 8.04,that was working  fine.
> > After installing F10, installed all security updates,
> > and one(1) debug update(bug icon).
> > All went O.K. till I restarted it.
> > After restart, boot proces went fine, but log in screen hangs up.
> > No active buttons, no text, just white fields on F10 wallpaper. It is
> impossible to interact.
> > I tried to reinstall F10 3 times, but, always the same story.
> > Can anybody help?
> > Thanks!
>
> Toma,
>
> My Dell GX270 is an Intel GPU.  It appears that in the first week of
> December something broke (or exposed an existing bug that broke)
> either the X-windows server or lots of drivers.
>
> If you type "a" during the boot sequence and then append a "3" to the
> grub command line you can log into your system in text (non-X) mode.
> "yum update" from the command line will install all ready updates...
> unfortunately there isn't one yet that fixes this problem.
>
> All I can advise is patience.  The good news is that enough folks are
> broken 100% of the time that ajax and crew should be able to track
> down and fix this problem (perhaps after the holidays).
>
> I'm lucky that my other two Linux installs are on ATI GPUs, but using
> the VESA driver (which isn't accelerated and does not seem to be
> affected).
>
> Good luck,
> Al
> All
>
>
>
>
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> Best regards,
>  Al                            mailto:al.dunsmuir at sympatico.ca
>
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