On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:47 -0600, linux guy wrote: > Sounds very similar Mark. > > Any other info you can share ? Video card ? Acceleration settings ? Nothing very much I can share at this time. I have a Dell Dimension E520 which had factory fitted Nvidia GeForce 7300. Other than install the proprietary drivers (yeah me too...) I have done nothing special - no acceleration (as far as I know). > Is it possible to roll back the nvidia update via yum ? (Please save > the sermon on proprietary drivers for later...) I tried booting into a previous kernel (which still had the relevant kmod-nvidia driver installed) which had worked fine previously - no joy... > > My system is fine during login. It too starts to lock during the > later stages of booting into the graphical session. One in a while I > can get a desktop up before it locks. The thing with me is that I get the GDM login screen (does KDE have an equivalent?) and log in to any of the users (I have 3 users set up on this machine - me, wife, son) that *DON'T* have desktop effects enabled. Now that I have managed to disable the compiz desktop effect for my own user id, I can now log in to that account too. In other words - all is fine unless I want to use desktop effects. Perhaps you could try to set up a new user on the machine and see what that gives? I am a bit short of time at the moment, but I intend to file a bug report; I also intend to try removing and re-installing the drivers. I originally installed the specific driver for the kernel (as per this guide: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html), but then found during one kernel update that the relevant nvidia driver was not available. I then installed the akmod-nvidia package which builds its own driver. I am wondering if there has been a problem with this, so I am going to try a complete re-install of the nvidia stuff (probably tomorrow if I get a chance). If you have any suggestions please do share... Thanks Mark
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