On Wednesday 07 December 2011 13:34:48 Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm starting Yet Another Thread here because things have changed enough > that it seems reasonable. On my desktop, I ran this: > > yum --releasever=16 --skip-broken distro-sync > > and let it do what it wanted, including downgrading several packages. > Then I rebooted. I always see the old progress bar, because of my > nVidia card, making for a garbled screen as the new boot messages came > up, but that's been true since the "upgrade." It tried, tried and tried > some more to bring up the login screen, but couldn't manage it. After a > couple of minutes I rebooted. This time I used the latest kernel in > rescue mode and used telinit 3 to get to a CLI. Looking at Xorg.0.log I > could see that it tried a large number of screen settings to find out > which ones worked and which didn't and couldn't get some xinerama TV > settings to work. (No surprise, I don't have that type of screen.) I > didn't see any obvious error messages, however. If anybody wants, I can > post the file on my website and you can look at it. Sure, post the link, I can take a look (no promises to have useful advice afterwards, though :-) ). While you're at it, post also the /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists, the output of xrandr, and any nontrivial details about your hardware (a KVM switch between the computer and the monitor is a typical troublemaker, for example...). Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
