Strange Gnome Behavior After Rawhide 20080906 update

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
>> Sven Lankes wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 06:57:48PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here after thursday's (or so) updates I get a blank (no text, most icons
>>>> gone) GDM, loging in blindly (this is the only account here) worked. After
>>>> today's update not even that works, ctrl-alt-BS does nothing, ctrl-alt-DEL
>>>> is broken too. Going through runlevel 3 and to X gives me a background and
>>>> upper/lower blank icon bars. Only the power switch gets me out.
>>> Sounds like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461149
>>> (that is - if you're using intel graphics).
>>> For me reverting to xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-1 fixed the issue.
> 
>> No.  ATI driver.  However, after one invocation of gnome/openbox,
>> regular gnome came back ok subsequently.
> 
> intel i810 driver here. Reverted that an gdm, back to normal
> 
> [Koji should be advertised more for us rawhideans who ocacionally need to
>  step back....]

Hmmmm...looking thru this thread, seems to be something different in two 
different graphics drivers and gdm.  What is common here?  Where to bz? 
  For ati, the mach64 and r128 support was broken out into two separate 
drivers recently.  Seems an avenue to explore when time permits.

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