2009/2/23 Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> > I did a fair number of updates last night, including KDE 4.2 packages > and 'kmod-nvidia-173.14.15-1.fc9.10.i686'. > > Normally, when I there is a problem with kmod-nvidia, X crashes right > away. However KDM seems to work just fine. But as soon as I log in, > the loader win comes up, then the monitor flickers (suggesting that X > restarted) > > The end result is that I couldn't log in to KDE this morning and was > too busy to create a new user. I have a secondary 'guest' user on the > same machine, but that account couldn't log in either. > > So I am debugging this remotely (no X). > > So I would like a suggestion on what to do about this. I didn't have > similar problems on my updates-testing machine, but it may not have > the same kmods. > > Last time I tried to switch back to nv, i basically couldn't. So if > that is going to be a suggestion, could some one let me know how to > disable desktop effects from the command line? KDE simply won't > startup with nv last time i tried. > Dont know what grahics card you have but during the f9 release nvidia split geforce5(FX) support out of the main driver package so kmod-nvidia refers to the old driver that includes geforce5 support. If you have a geforce6 or higher then switch to kmod-nvidia-newest for the 180 series driver. This doesnt apply to f10 but i mention because you appear to be using f9. Apologies if you already knew -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090223/b22661b7/attachment.html
