Fedora Core 2 freezes on Dell Latitiude LS400

[Jose Moreno]

thanks. I was able to fix this by using a newer development kernel.



On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:43:02 +0100, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> About a week ago, Jose Moreno wrote:
> > I loaded Fedora Core2 from the ftp.redhat.com site on my dell
> > latitude.
> > it loads up until the Login screen, then once i enter my username and
> > password, it freezes midway through. I tried KDE and GNOME and they
> > both freeze
> >
> > any ideas why? i'm eager to get started with Linux.
> >
> > Display is a NeoMagice MagicGraph256AV
> > Pentium 3
> >
> > it works fine on Windows XP. i hate xp though :-0
> >
> 
> Sorry you never got an answer, Jose. Did you ever fix this?
> 
> It sounds from other posts as though you've got to a text prompt
> (presumably at the console). Can you, as root, run telinit 3, then log
> in (perhaps at another virtual console: say Ctrl+Alt+F2) as yourself,
> then try running startx?
> 
> Does the whole machine freeze, or can you still get back to a virtual
> console while X is logged?
> 
> What happens if you redirect the output of startx to a file:
> startx > startx.log 2>&1
> 
> What's in that startx.log file afterwards (if the machine locks solid,
> after you reboot)?
> 
> Have you tried vesafb mode?
> 
> HTH,
> 
> James.
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