Nvidia Driver updates/blanks screen when logoff

[marcrblevins]

I ran a yum from testing repo:

yum update --enablerepo=rp*ing

It shown a new Nvidia driver listed, 190.53.
Accepted to load it.

[marc@kiriyamablevins ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc12.i686
kmod-nvidia-PAE-190.53-1.fc12.i686
akmod-nvidia-190.53-1.fc12.i686
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc12.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686.PAE-190.42-1.fc12.8.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.53-1.fc12.i686
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc12.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.53-1.fc12.i686
[marc@kiriyamablevins ~]$

Was still using the rig for a few hours, then I went to log off

It logs off, but didn't go to the Fedora login screen, I'm using kdm.

Got a blank screen, cursor at upper left.

My mind was blank of how to restart the X server from CLI, I tried Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, no go.
So I tried Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get in terminal mode and ran:

shutdown -r 1

It restarted my rig in 1 minute.

Should whenever a new Nvidia or ATI driver gets installed, should it auto restart the X server at logoff time? That would be nice.

Funny thing was, I read lots of Fedorians seeing blank screen with cursor at upper left, thought they didn't follow Leigh's instructions.
No it was whenever a new Nvidia driver gets installed, need to restart the X server. Assuming the same for other video driver flavors.

Cheers

---------- Post added at 11:49 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 11:40 PM CST ----------

Googled around,I see:

kwin --replace

The kwin command doesn't work. Next.

telinit 3 #Shutdown X
telinit 5 #Starts X

Works, not sure if I can remember that. :P