Strange Gnome Behavior After Rawhide 20080906 update

[Antonio M]

2008/9/8 Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl>:
> Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
>
> Here I get non-working gdm (just blank entry fields). Sometime it worked
> (loged in blind), then not at all.
>
> Lately (last xorg-x11-drv-i810?) the Gnome desktop hangs completely after
> NetworkManager spins for a few rounds tring to get the WiFi network. Then
> the CapsLock light blinks, and nothing works anymore.
>
>>                                          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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is this connected to [Fedora]   Bug 454055   -  Latest updates of
xorg-x11-drv-i810 prevent graphic login ????

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Antonio Montagnani
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