Fedora 11 intel graphics dead after update

datatek · #1 21st September 2009, 11:43 AM

I have Fedora 11. After my most recent update, I can't log in.

Every time I authenticate, the logon window disappears, the screen goes black briefly, and then I am back at the log in window :-(

I entirely reinstalled, and then it worked, until I updated to the newest kernel then it didn't work anymore.

Update:
I now generated a xorg.conf with system-config-display --noui

I manually removed and reinstalled xorg-x11-drv-intel with yum. It didn't work.

By the way: now the start hangs on "Starting atd: OK"

If I specify "vesa" in xorg.conf, then it gets past the point, but display doesn't load properly.

Please help :-/

datatek · #2 21st September 2009, 12:31 PM

Update:

Everything works if I remove kernel-PAE.
But this isn't a solution for me, because I want to use kernel-PAE.

What can the problem be?

gdr01 · #3 21st September 2009, 12:56 PM

I got this after I de-installed everything to do with 'pulseaudio'.
My box is an AMD, nvidia based system running F11 X86_64.

I logged in as root (Ctrl-Alt-F2)
yum install 'gdm*'
reboot
and up it came.

Yes I did do a yum install pulseaudio before that but it did not help.

I have just finished building a new Intel box with onboard Intel graphics and its OK. If you need to compare files let me know.

datatek · #4 21st September 2009, 01:03 PM

I did a "yum install pulseaudio" = Already installed
I did a "yum install 'gdm*'" = Only things that were additionally installed were gdmap and gdm-plugin-smartcard, which don't seem too relevant. Please help :-/

giulix · #5 21st September 2009, 01:05 PM

Code:

yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

did the trick for me. See this post also

gdr01 · #6 21st September 2009, 01:08 PM

If you log in as a user (not root) and type startx does it come up?

I had to install switchdesk before i got startx to work.

yum install switchdesk

datatek · #7 21st September 2009, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giulix

Code:

yum downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

did the trick for me

This unfortunately did not help.

datatek · #8 21st September 2009, 01:20 PM

If I boot into runtime level 5 (or init 5) then it just freezes dead when it gets to the graphics. Thus far I boot into runtime level 3 and work from there.

Edit: I read the post regarding bug track, but neither version works for me :-(

gdr01 · #9 21st September 2009, 02:48 PM

when your system hangs at the 'Starting ATD' can you not go in the 'backdoor' (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and log in as a user?
If you can try startx

beaker_ · #10 21st September 2009, 03:25 PM

My F11 box runs headless and at runlevel 3 but I noticed it failing to restart. For giggles, try adding 'nomodeset' to grub's. I doubt it'll fix your problem but it'll rule out mode setting. Yes it work for me, old intel chipset though.

mintze · #11 21st September 2009, 07:03 PM

Hi,
I have the same problem, and posted it already.
No solution found. But there is a work around:
Start your computer and before Fedora comes up press the ESC key a couple of times.
This allows you to select a previous kernel, including PAE if the previous kernel had it (mine has & had).
This works fine for me. I am running on a Dell Optiplex 760 with Intel chip set (Dual Core) + 4Gb RAM.
I now run 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE,
whereas the problem started with 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.

Mintze

kazysmaster · #12 22nd September 2009, 07:37 AM

Has anyone filled a bug report?

kazysmaster · #13 22nd September 2009, 07:46 AM

I found it myself https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521574

gdr01 · #14 22nd September 2009, 08:18 AM

I got that error after deleting the following from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

I did this as I was getting the following message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(WW) Disabling Keyboard0

It came up fine after I replaced the keyboard section.
Linux seal 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 27 21:39:52 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

winux_wuver · #15 22nd September 2009, 01:48 PM

I had this problem with another distro and it seems very related to the kernel update. Kernel 2.6.30 (name your ending here) is using modesetting. I have a nv50 series nVidia card and use the nouveau video driver, which I like, but each time I updated the kernel to this new kernel, I would get a blank screen with a flashing cursor. I could initiate a cosnole login by entering CTRL ALT F1, or is it F2? I would log in and it would not be able to bring up an xsesson after entering "startx"
I then tried editing the kernel boot line by adding "nouveau.modeset=1 vga=0" after splash=quiet and that allowed me to get to a graphical x session log in. But, I noticed the login splash blinked just barely, but didn't do this with the default kernel, so I reinstalled and avoided updating to the latest 30.(name your latest kernel number here) and all was well.

I just installed Fedora 11 KDE live and I have 200 plus updates to go, and I will avoid that new kernel until something is fixed for this.