I just got a Radeon 4850 graphics card for my F8 system, and I ran into this infinite-boot-loop problem. (I'm running kernel 2.6.25.10-47.fc8.) Oddly, I can work around the problem by booting first in single-user mode, then exiting to run-level 5. It also worked when I first installed the proprietary ATI driver (version 8.501, downloaded just yesterday) by logging out (and not rebooting). Attempts to build for specific distributions (I tried Fedora/F9, Fedora/F8, Fedora/FC6) all failed with the following message: error: %changelog entries must start with * Julius On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried downgrading the fglrx drivers on the problem > x86_64 fedora 8 box by installing the source rpm for > fglrx-kmod-8.476-1.8.04.lvn8.src.rpm and building the > kmod-fglrx packages against the current kernel > (2.6.24.5-85.fc8). While the fglrx 8.476 drivers worked > fine against the 2.6.24.4-64 kernel (which I can no > longer find to download), the current kernel still > has the black screen and reboots against these > drivers. Does anyone know if an archive for the older > fedora kernel updates so I can regress back to the > 2.6.24.4-64 kernel until this issue is fixed? > Jack > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
