On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:11 +0000, N James Bridge wrote: > I am hoping someone may be able to throw some light on this. > > I had (and now have restored) F12 (x86_64) working with the nouveau > driver. I have been watching for the nvidia drivers to make it into the > RPMfusion repo and they have now done so and last night I installed the > 173 legacy driver (as required for my ancient graphics card!) Result - > plymouth intro followed by black screen. I rebooted into level 3 and > uninstalled the nvidia drivers and tried again - same result. Following > advice I got here previously, I rebooted to level 3, deleted xorg.conf > and then ran startx, which worked. However, on closing, I got a string > of error messages and then on booting up, the black screen again. > > Finally, I repeated the above and from the gui (GNOME) made a new user. > Since then things have worked normally. Why? It seems more like black > magic than IT. > > I have attached the error log and the default xorg.conf file, for expert > perusal. It doesn't mean a whole lot to me. > > thanks in advance for any comments ---- the error log doesn't seem to track with the xorg.conf file you enclosed. the xorg.conf called for 'nv' but the error log tried to use the proprietary nvidia driver. What is it that you want to do and perhaps we can figure out the best course of action Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
