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 > PS. I should have said that, following the advice on installing nvidia drivers given at http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html I also tried using dracut to make a new initramfs, once the nvidia driver was removed. It didn't make any difference: worked once only, as for the other changes. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
