[rhn-users] FC4 yum update killed video - dell laptop

[Sean Countryman]

I had the same problem on my home workstation (Dell GX260 with the i810 video).
 The described problem is EXACTLY what I got too.  If you even try to start X,
it goes to a garbled screen and won't go back to the command prompt.  I tried
system-config-display and it too locked up the screen.  It appears the latest
xorg release borked it.  I'll try to manually fix the xorg.conf file, but if
there is a better suggestion, I'd like to hear about it.  Thanks!


> Red Hat Network Users List writes:
> > Hey all, running a Dell Inspiron 300m, did a large yum update (several x
> > packages) and on restart run level 5 is dead. I can barely make out the
> > bios/boot screen.
> 
> We had the same trouble here (Fedora Core 4 running on Gateway E4300s and
> E4100s).  My student assistants determined that the latest YUM update of
> Xorg packages caused the problem.  Our first fix was to run
> system-config-display, which mostly worked (the equivalent for RedHat is
> redhat-config-display).  Later, we were able to determine that the
> "driver" specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf had changed to "i810" and when we
> changed it to "vesa," X11 worked again.  Your mileage may vary, of course.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Scott
> 
> -- 
> Scott D. Anderson
> Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
> Scott.Anderson at acm.org
> http://cs.wellesley.edu/~anderson/
> 
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