edit your grub boot line and add a 3 at the end of the "kernel"-line - so fedora will boot into runlevel 3 (text) and you probably can correct the error (see /var/log/Xorg.0.log). freddy On Sunday 13 March 2005 19:28, Derek Moore wrote: > > xorg-x11-6.8.2-10 > > ----------------- > > * Fri Mar 11 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris redhat com> 6.8.2-10 > > - Re-enable xorg-x11-6.8.2-xnest-shape-fix.patch which has been updated > > now for 6.8.2 by Mark McLoughlin (#148763) > > > > * Thu Mar 10 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris redhat com> 6.8.2-9 > > - Disable xorg-x11-6.8.2-xnest-shape-fix.patch added in 6.8.2-8, as it > > does not compile. > > > > * Thu Mar 10 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris redhat com> 6.8.2-1.FC3.8test > > - Rebuild 6.8.2-8 as 6.8.2-1.FC3.8test for Fedora Core 3 testing release > > I track Rawhide on my Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop. It has a Trident > CyberBladeXP video card. > > When I finished syncing to Rawhide yesterday, which included upgrading > X to the above quoted packages, my X display quit working. Instead of > normal operation, I get a completely white screen. For the first few > seconds of X starting up, I can see the "x"-shaped mouse cursor, but > then that disappears into the whiteness, too. > > If I switch out of X and to a virtual terminal, or if I kill X and get > thrown back to a virtual terminal, the video card stays garbled and I > can't use the terminals. Most of the time the terminals are black > with white vertical strips every character column, but a few times it > turned the terminal background orange and the characters yellow. > > I tried rebuilding the SRPM for X.Org in FC3 Updates, so I could > downgrade and get a working X again, but the compile didn't seem to > want to succeed with GCC 4.0. (I haven't yet tried installing the > binary RPMs from FC3 Updates, I suppose they'll install if I have the > proper compat packages installed.) > > Anyways, I just thought I'd report that X.Org 6.8.2 doesn't play well > with Trident CyberBladeXPs. > > Other than that, thanks much for the high-quality, bleeding-edge, > surprisingly-stable Rawhide fun! > > Peace out, > > Derek -- Frederick Alexander Thomssen
