X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:59 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 2:36 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > If you're talking about the log here:
> >
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-October/384602.html
> >
> > Then the X server is starting just fine, it's your desktop session
> > that's broken.
> >
> > When in doubt, boot to runlevel 3 and run "X -retro".  You should see
> > the classic ugly stipple and X cursor, and control-alt-backspace will
> > return you to a command prompt.  If that works, then X works, and you
> > need to figure out why your desktop won't load.
> >
> > - ajax
> Thanks for that. I had suspected there could be an issue with the 
> desktop not starting properly. I probably should have posed the question 
> on the fedora-kde list.

at a guess, you may have desktop effects enabled in KDE which worked
fine with the proprietary driver but don't work with nouveau.
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