F12 on one machine bollixed, but BAD

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Feb 15 20:58:17 UTC 2010


Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:15:30 +0000 (UTC)
> BeartoothHOS wrote:
> 
>> 	Now it boots only as far as the line about registering something 
>> to do with binaries and Windows.
> 
> I believe that is just "wine" registering its binary handler. That
> is usually the last thing it does before bringing up the X login
> screen. You could boot the system at runlevel 3 instead of 5, and
> that would make it simpler to fool with xorg.conf and other X things,
> trying them out with "startx".
> 
> Is this by any chance an ATI video card? I know recent updates
> certainly seemed to make my ATI card worse instead of better.

I have been saying "updates" instead of "upgrades" with FC12, too.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   Fedora 12 is a teaching tool, to help people learn how to bring up
their systems using the VESA video driver.



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