Latest rawhide update makes X server startup impossible

[Gerry Tool]

Amitabha Roy wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I upgraded to the latest rawhide (10/20) and now am facing multitude of 
> issues.
> I think I have narrowed down the culprit to some display problem or udev 
> problem.
> 
> When I booted up and choose the newest kernel (2.6.9), the boot process 
> got stuck after
> it initialized hardware, with the statement "configuring kernel 
> parameters".
> 
> I *could* get it to boot after removing the word "rhgb" from the 
> relevant line in the grub screen
> (hence my suspicion that this is a display problem). Ok, the system now 
> gets going,
> however fails to start and X server, with old conf file, tries to make a 
> new one and still fails
> (I believe it tries to load either the VESA or the nv driver).
> 
> Does udev manage the display adapters as well ? So it could be a udev 
> problem as well.

I am having the same experience after this morning's updates, with the 
kernels 639, 624 and 610, but with an ATI 7500 card.

Gerry Tool