Kernel update kills X

[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