Kernel update kills X

[Peter Onion]

I'm new to Fedora, so plese bare with me if I'm a bit behind with
stuff.  (I normally run SuSE 9.0 but that's just too stable :-)

Anyway....

I've installed FC2-test1 and updated up2date, and the kernel to
2.6.3-2.1.240.  However this has killed X.

Hardware is a VIA MII-10000 (C3 Nehemiah core) with CLE-266 graphics,
but X is set to use the VESA driver.

I've made the symbolic link changes to fix the mouse driver, and even
upgraded the XFree86 packages, but when X tries to start the machine
stops-dead.  Power cycle needed to get it going again.

All works OK with 2.6.1-1.65 from the install from the isos

Peter

[Jim Cornette]

Peter Onion wrote:
> I'm new to Fedora, so plese bare with me if I'm a bit behind with
> stuff.  (I normally run SuSE 9.0 but that's just too stable :-)
>
> Anyway....
>
> I've installed FC2-test1 and updated up2date, and the kernel to
> 2.6.3-2.1.240.  However this has killed X.
>
> Hardware is a VIA MII-10000 (C3 Nehemiah core) with CLE-266 graphics,
> but X is set to use the VESA driver.
>
> I've made the symbolic link changes to fix the mouse driver, and even
> upgraded the XFree86 packages, but when X tries to start the machine
> stops-dead.  Power cycle needed to get it going again.
>
> All works OK with 2.6.1-1.65 from the install from the isos
>
> Peter

In addition to making the /dev/mouse symlink point to /dev/input/mice 
you have to change the first instance within your /etc/X11/XF86Config 
file to point to the /dev/mouse symlink.

Jim

[Peter Onion]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 13:52, Jim Cornette wrote:
> In addition to making the /dev/mouse symlink point to /dev/input/mice 
> you have to change the first instance within your /etc/X11/XF86Config 
> file to point to the /dev/mouse symlink.
>
> Jim

I should have said I had done that as well !

Peter

[Jim Cornette]

Peter Onion wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 13:52, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > In addition to making the /dev/mouse symlink point to /dev/input/mice 
> > you have to change the first instance within your /etc/X11/XF86Config 
> > file to point to the /dev/mouse symlink.
> >
> > Jim
>
> I should have said I had done that as well !
>
> Peter

I was lazy and just changed the instance of /dev/psaux to point to 
/dev/input/mice and didn't worry about the symlink to /dev/mouse. This 
worked as well.

There was also mention about changing an entry in /etc/sysconfig/gpm to 
/dev/mouse and I chaged it to point to /dev/input/mice as well.

At first attempt, I put mouse in the entry, instead of mice. I realized 
later that I did this and corrected the entry to the plural.

If your mouse entries are correct, it might be something other than a 
pointer device, maybe your problem is related to the display driver or 
something.

Jim

[Steve Bergman]

Peter Onion wrote:
> I should have said I had done that as well !

So what does /var/log/Xfree86.0.log say?  Any (EE) lines?

-Steve

[Peter Onion]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 14:56, Steve Bergman wrote:
> Peter Onion wrote:
> > I should have said I had done that as well !
>
> So what does /var/log/Xfree86.0.log say?  Any (EE) lines?
>
> -Steve

Well it's working now (see earlier post about "nogui" option on grub
config.

I'm just running up2date so it will be broken again soon :-)

Peter

[Steve Bergman]

Peter Onion wrote:
> I'm just running up2date so it will be broken again soon :-)

That's good to hear! ;-)

-Steve

[Peter Onion]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 13:16, Peter Onion wrote:
> I'm new to Fedora, so plese bare with me if I'm a bit behind with
> stuff.  (I normally run SuSE 9.0 but that's just too stable :-)
>
> Anyway....
>
> I've installed FC2-test1 and updated up2date, and the kernel to
> 2.6.3-2.1.240.  However this has killed X.

I found mention of using the "nogui" option to grub

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-March/msg00427.html

and this has atleast enabled me to get the system to boot.

Peter
>

[Pekka Pietikäinen]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:16:56PM +0000, Peter Onion wrote:
> I've installed FC2-test1 and updated up2date, and the kernel to
> 2.6.3-2.1.240.  However this has killed X.
>
> Hardware is a VIA MII-10000 (C3 Nehemiah core) with CLE-266 graphics,
> but X is set to use the VESA driver.

VESA never worked that well for me, but there is a native VIA driver that
works pretty well included in later XFree86 packages that works quite well
with 2.6.3-2.1.238 (minor issues with Xv, 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116027 has the details
and a workaround)

You'll have to edit XF86Config manually to use it, system-config-display 
doesn't know about it yet.

[Peter Onion]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:45, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:16:56PM +0000, Peter Onion wrote:
> VESA never worked that well for me, but there is a native VIA driver that
> works pretty well included in later XFree86 packages that works quite well
> with 2.6.3-2.1.238 (minor issues with Xv, 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116027 has the details
> and a workaround)
>
> You'll have to edit XF86Config manually to use it, system-config-display 
> doesn't know about it yet.

Yes, once I got to the point where 2.6.3 would boot I tried the via
driver.  I'm lots of experience with manually editing XF86config :-(

On my SuSE box I have a "customised" version of the via driver to
produce the appropriate refresh rates to make my monitor recognise
1280x768.

Peter.