trying to update to "new" ATI drivers killed X on my FC2

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 27 November 2004 21:31, Trevor Smith wrote:
>OK, I saw a note from someone pointing to a blurb on the fedorafaq
> about how to upgrade to "new" ATI drivers for FC2 (I thought). I
> have never had a problem with using yum and the livna repositories
> before so I thought, "what can it hurt?" The yum install or update,
> whichever it was, reported complete success without warning or
> error.
>
>Now my laptop boots to a text login prompt instead of its old
> graphical login prompt and when I login, I get just the bash shell
> instead of kde as before. I don't actually know what *should* be
> done after logging into text command shell so I tried "startx" as a
> shot in the dark, but got a page of info, ending with an error and
> that's it. I'm stuck in the 1970's.
>
>So now my laptop is unusable (to me) since I have no significant
>Internet software that I can use from a command prompt and I am
> forced to boot to WinXP to ask: How do I back out of this update I
> performed (via yum)? Or am I shot and must I now spend days trying
> to figure out how the rpm system or, worse, how the X system works?
>
>help! :-(

You can start by posting your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, after you have 
looked at it and verified that its reporting a failure you don't know 
how to fix.  

Often the log is so self-explanatory it turns into a forehead 
slapper. :-)

You can probably do that posting with mutt, an email agent that runs 
on a plain old bash shell.  But I'm like you, that would be a last 
resort.  It probably isn't that crippled but on a bash shell it's 
"different".

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