New boot failure

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now failing, 
> losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and keyboard at 
> about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showing only the 4 
> workspace icons and the trash can.  No other buttons or menu icons get drawn.

Same thing happened here.

Are you using f13-beta with compiz?  There is a bug in xorg that locks
up the display and keyboard when using compiz.  The fix is here:

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers/80940

or in short grab the relevent xorg files and do a "yum --localinstall"
of them.

  http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.8.0/8.fc13/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm
  http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.8.0/8.fc13/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm

-wolfgang
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