On 26 October 2013 18:31, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/26/13 13:16, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> I could be wrong, but I am inclined to be believe these situations seem to >> occur after kernel updates. >> > Well, I just joined this list a few days ago, and will be leaving. I'd > joined, because we have three folks at work on fedora, and one, I'd updated > Mon? Tues? and rebooted... and that was all she wrote. No X, at all. After > fighting for a day and a half, with his ATI FirePro (xinit would open a > window, with no text/font at all, a black screen otherwise), we gave up on > that, and replaced it with an older NVidia card from '04, and after trying a > number of different drivers, none of which worked, I finally got the 304 > legacy one, and *that* was broken - I had to run depmod myself, manually, > because until I did, modprobe couldn't find it - and the absolute best I > could do was start it from init 3 with startx, and *that* came up... but > runlevel 5 refused anything but a black screen. > > So he needed a Linux box, and it took me 1.25 hrs to pxeboot him to a CentOS > 6, which came up *perfectly*, no video issues at all. After three days of > fighting bleeding edge fc19. > > *shrug* > > See y'all around. Sorry to hear that, I don't think it's the general experience (I've tended to find hardware support is good these days). FWIW I'd say CentOS is a better bet for an office environment anyway if someone just needs a box, less frequent churn. Feel free to come back if you ever do find yourself fighting with a Fedora system again. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
