New boot failure

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>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.
>>
>>
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.8.0/8.fc13/x
>>8 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/x
>>8 6_64/xorg-x11-server-common-1.8.0-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>-wolfgang
>
>I'm assuming the usual trick of booting to level 3 will work?  Ahh, no, the
>boot delay is zero, so there is no chance to  edit grub.  Or is there a
> magic vulcan nerve pinch for that?
>
Found it, just keep banging rapidly on the e key till it sorta works.

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