X fails to start after recent update
Andrew Kelly
akelly at corisweb.org
Fri Feb 27 10:21:49 UTC 2009
Hugh,
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:57 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I did an update. It said I should reboot.
> After reboot, X does not come up.
>
> I can flip to a text console: that's what I'm typing this into.
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
Same problem here, also running F 10 on X86-66 and with an Asus EAH3650
Silent Magic. Although, when my stuff hangs, it's hung, I can't get to a
text console at all. I have to do a hard reboot (cringe) and then grab
grub on the way up to boot into run level 3.
I can't tell you exactly what's choking and dying, BUT, I have at least
been able to narrow it down the exact rpm that is doing the damage.
It's xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-2.fc10.i386.rpm
It's probably either the ati or radeo driver modules, but that's just
speculation at this point.
My work-around was kind of brain dead, but it's kept me running. I
queried the rpm for its files, then tar'ed myself an archive of those
before updating, and played them back after the update.
Really, really cheesy, but I've got 9 irons in the fire right now and
can't look back at the moment
> I'm running X86-66 Fedora 10. The video card is an Asus EAH3650
> Silent Magic.
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows some bad news:
>
> (EE) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 enabled but has no modes
>
> But I don't know why it says that. Preceding lines include:
> (II) RADEON(0): Printing probed modes for output DVI-0
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "2560x1600"x59.9 268.00 2560 2608 2640 2720 1600 1603 1609 1646 +hsync +vsync (98.5 kHz)
> This is a correct modeline for the monitor
> (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 disconnected
> (II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 connected
> (II) RADEON(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
>
> Eventually, it says:
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> I don't know which update is the problem. Certainly one in the alst
> few days.
>
> It cannot be the actual X device driver because I didn't update that.
> There is a driver update but I don't apply it because it does not
> work on my system. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484636
>
> The ati driver recognizes the video card as:
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT" (ChipID = 0x9598)
> The "ATI ATI" is a typo fixed in the current driver.
>
Andy
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