splash screen - system hangs

[tomislavp]

Fedora conspiracy:

Dell Latitude LS
128MB
VGA NeoMagic NM2200
Display SVGA TFT
more details:
http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/Syst...n/ug/specs.htm


New clean installation and partitioning:
selected "Unprob. monitor"

everything seems ok, installation, start up and then if i try to log on with root or ordinary user account i see splash screen and then system hangs.
(i can log on to Failsafe_terminal session)

is it possible to solve this problem ?

++ i am new to linux and fedora ++

FC1 was working just fine, although i had problem with SAMBA


cheers
tomislav

p.s.
i also posted this to "Installation Help"

[Nefarious]

Have you tried logging in using text login and then just starting X from there?

It's entirely possible it's just a GUI Login problem, or it's completely with X(whether you use KDE or Gnome).

Which brings up an interesting question, what do you use?

[tomislavp]

GNOME, no same thing


last line/service on startup is constantly failing !!

i am new to linux, so i do not know what log/folder i need to look for, to find error. it seems that is something with Synaptics TouchPad driver for XOrg/XFree86 and kernel 2.6., i am not sure

cheers
tomislav

[Jman]

Go to a failsafe session and check out the latest kernel messages. Run

cat /var/log/messages

and scroll to the bottom. Also look at the Xorg logs in the same directory, especially the errors marked EE. Something might be interesting.

If it is this driver, do you have a spare USB mouse or something you can try?

[tomislavp]

thanks

hm, so:

1. starting up log, last line is mdmpd:
mdmpd: mdmpd failed
i do not know what is that but i find this on redahat:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2003-397.html

2. i tried with USB and PS2 external mouse, same problem

3. Xorg log seem to be clean (i do not see errors with EE)

4. i did "yum update" and downloaded last updates ++ when i start up2date i have "clean working window )", and everything working fine

anyway, thanks Jman, thanks

cheers
tomislav