rawhide report: 20050312 changes

[Frederick Alexander Thomssen]

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