New boot failure

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now
>> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and
>> keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen, showing
>> only the 4 workspace icons and the trash can.  No other buttons or menu
>> icons get drawn.
>
>Same thing happened here.
>
>Are you using f13-beta with compiz?  There is a bug in xorg that locks
>up the display and keyboard when using compiz.  The fix is here:
>
>  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers/80940
>
>or in short grab the relevent xorg files and do a "yum --localinstall"
>of them.

yum --localinstall?  yum has no such option there, used rpm -Uvh *.rpm after 
wgetting the files.
 
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.8.0/8.fc13/x8
>6_64/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.8.0/8.fc13/x8
>6_64/xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm
>
>-wolfgang
>
Many thanks.  Fixed grub.conf while I was in the level 3 mode too.  Rebooted, 
looks good.  Thanks Wolfgang.

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