Hi all,
Yet again a problem!
I've been running F14 64 bit now for about a month, mainly without problem... until yesterday afternoon..... I did a yumex update, installed a few apps, then poof... stuck!
Firstly, trying to reboot, it shows the F14 blue screen with the acorn thingy in the middle, then goes black with a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner, the nix - nada - nowt.
So using this F13 installation on anothe HDD, went in and modified inittab from 5 to 3, can now boot to a CLI screen & run most non-graphical things.
Try to startx but it comes up as "no devices found" waits a few seconds then gives me my prompt back. Same is true if I first do an su.
So the question is..... how do I get my KDE screen back - preferably without reinstalling???
As ever, enormous thanks for any help!!
Dave
F14 64 bit, KDE
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, DB Freddog_de@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Yet again a problem!
Are you running NVIDIA driver? Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
-c
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 07:21:43 AM Chris Smart wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, DB Freddog_de@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Yet again a problem!
Are you running NVIDIA driver? Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
FWIW, and for the archives, the nvidia kmod driver doesn't show the 'acorn thingy' on boot, but a set of text-mode bars at the bottom of the screen, at least on my F14 boxk, a Dell Precision M65 with an nVidia Quadro FX 350M. The OP said upthread: "Firstly, trying to reboot, it shows the F14 blue screen with the acorn thingy in the middle,....".
Secondly, do make sure that when you get a kernel update you also get the corresponding kmod update for nvidia if you have an nvidia card. Otherwise you will get the blinking cursor in the upper left corner.....and will need to reboot with an older kernel that still has a kmod-nvidia installed.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
FWIW, and for the archives, the nvidia kmod driver doesn't show the 'acorn thingy' on boot, but a set of text-mode bars at the bottom of the screen, at least on my F14 boxk, a Dell Precision M65 with an nVidia Quadro FX 350M. The OP said upthread: "Firstly, trying to reboot, it shows the F14 blue screen with the acorn thingy in the middle,....".
It will show that, if they pass a vga option though..
Secondly, do make sure that when you get a kernel update you also get the corresponding kmod update for nvidia if you have an nvidia card. Otherwise you will get the blinking cursor in the upper left corner.....and will need to reboot with an older kernel that still has a kmod-nvidia installed.
In fact, one should install akmod, instead of kmod, so that it's automatically built on boot up and that issue goes away.
-c
On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:21:03 PM Chris Smart wrote:
It will show [the acron thingy], if they pass a vga option though..
Which option is that? Would be cool to get the real splash screen on boot instead of the text bars.....
In fact, one should install akmod, instead of kmod, so that it's automatically built on boot up and that issue goes away.
That never seemed to work correctly here, but admittedly it's been a while since I last tried.
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Lamar Owen