--- Josh Forman <jforman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently installed FC4 on my Acer Travelmate 2304 > notebook. I spent > a few hours getting everything I wanted installed > and configured -- > everything booted normally, I used ndiswrapper to > get the wireless > card working, etc. Since this is my first real > foray into Linux, I > was happy to get this far. > > When I used the graphical updater (is this just a > yum wrapper?), > however, I chose to install everything, and after an > hour of downloads > and updates I restarted the machine. When it came > back up, the kernel > begins to boot normally and then in the middle of > the boot a messed up > Acer logo appears on the screen (very distorted), > and the machine > hangs. I've discovered that I can boot at runlevel > 3 normally into > text mode, but startx causes the same distorted acer > logo to appear. > > I ran Xorg - configure and got a message about the > mouse not being > recognized. Since it worked fine before, I'm > guessing something > seriously messed up my X install. Any ideas on what > could be going > wrong? > > FYI, I actually reinstalled FC4 from scratch once to > see if this was a > one-shot problem, and I get the same behavior > consistently only after > running the graphical updater. > > Thanks in advance, > Josh > This has been discussed in the Fedora list. You probably have Intel video, and there is a problem with the xorg updates. Probably, easier to just revert to the previous X11 rpms, until a new X11 update is available. See the Fedora list for more details. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
