Black page instead of login screen-Fedora2

[Mark Sargent]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:03 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:00 pm, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> >>>Paul, as stated, this happens with any kernel. I guess I'm using
> >>> whatever nVidia drivers that Fedora recognized the 1st time I
> >>> installed/booted. Why does this happen with only some kernels..?
> >>> Shouldn't the developers be looking out for this kind of thing..? Damn
> >>> annoying.
> >>>
> >>>P.S. I don't think it was just the kernel that was updated, as I did a
> >>>yum update. Cheers.
> >>
> >>OK, so it sounds like you're not using the proprietary nvidia drivers.
> >>Can you boot to runlevel 3 without problems (press "e" in the grub menu
> >>and append " 3" to end of the line, then press return to boot)?
> >
> > Knoppix 3.7 to the rescue, again
> >
> >>What do you have in the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >  Identifier  "Videocard0"
> >  Driver      "nv"
> >  VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> >  BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
> > EndSection
>
> Nothing proprietary there then. Try booting to runlevel 3 (press "e" at
> the grub prompt and add " 3" to the end of the boot command line, then
> press return to boot). Log in as any user (assuming it gets that far)
> and try:
>
> $ startx >X.out 2>X.err
>
> Then look in X.out and X.err to see if there are any useful diagnostics.
>
> >>P.S. Your computer's clock/timezone appears to be around 14 hours fast.
> >
> > I'm in Tokyo, could that be why..? Cheers.
>
> Your email's Date: header says:
>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:37:05 -0500
>
> Is that the right time and timezone offset for where you are?
>
> Paul.

Hi All,

ok, thanx , Paul, I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Time is 1.20am here on Fri the 
18th. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.