On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:42 PM, John5342 <john5342 at googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 According to lspci: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) 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. I switches to -newtest, and had my roommate attempt login with the guest account, no go. > This doesnt apply to f10 but i mention because you appear to be using f9. > Apologies if you already knew Even if I did, you don't need to apologize. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )
