fc6t2 install hangs after trying to start X

[David L]

>>>Probably the best thing to do is to yum -y update "xorg*" your system to 
>>>get the latest upgrades for your system in order to see if current 
>>>rawhide has the fix applied.
>>
>>yum -y update "xorg*" changed the behavior, but it still didn't work.
>>Instead of exiting, startx and system-config-display both caused the
>>monitor to go blank and the little led on the monitor started flashing
>>indicating no signal or a bad signal I think.
>
>It definitely sounds broken. It is as you say or a third possibility, it is 
>outputting to the imaginary second head of the video card.
>
>>>
>>>If that does not fix the problem, you might attempt changing the driver 
>>>in your xorg.conf from i810 to vesa and attempting to start X. If the 
>>>vesa driver works and the i810 is causing problems, you might be able to 
>>>file a bug report against the i810 driver for xorg-x11.
>>Changing i810 to vesa made it start working.
>
>Don't forget to query bug reports for the xorg-x11-drv-i810 and file a bug 
>regarding the broken driver.

Done...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203185

>I have interest in your problem being resolved because I have an Intel 865G 
>also. It works as an upgrade, but might fail as a fresh install.
>
>Did you try the i810-xorg.conf file that I sent out earlier? Did it work?
No... I'll have to look back through the archives, because I
must have missed that conf file you sent.

Cheers,

             David

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