Help > nVidia on FC 2, test 3

[Daniel Stonier]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:29:36 -0700 (PDT), Doug Robson 
<cdrobsonjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Kind helpers,
>
> I just upgraded to Fedora Core 2, Test 3 and then
> tried the nVidia
> installer using the --add-this-kernel, followed by
> *custom.run.
> Everything seemed to run to completion without error.
> But when I booted up to run level 5 (graphic mode), as
> soon
> as the optical mouse light lit, normally the time when
> I get the
> nVidia splash screen alerting the successful starting
> of X and the gdm,
> all I get is a black screen. The computer is hung at
> this point.
> Ctl-Alt-Backspace will not yield a text login prompt.
> Only a
> hardware reset will unfreeze the CPU.

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will only restart the X server - and if
it's crashed this wont enable anything. Ctrl-Alt-F1 (to F6)
will get you to the login prompt and there you can start
tinkering.

Regards,
Daniel.