Michael Schwendt <fedora <at> wir-sind-cool.org> writes:
Completed a yum upgrade of an up-to-date FC5 installation to Rawhide at
the weekend.
After reboot, it starts the X server, and then the monitor is "switched
off", i.e. it is put into power-saving standby mode with a blinking power
LED and apparently no way to turn it on.
Does that sound familiar to anybody?
Running system-config-display with or without --reconfig gives a
traceback (GdkPixbuf fatal error) and refuses to work.
I have 3 linux computers, 2 64-bit desktops and one 32-bit laptop.
The laptop (an old Dell I4100) works fine with FC5 kernels 2145 and 2157.
One of my 64-bit desktops (Athlon based) shows the exact behavior you describe
with both kernels, but works fine with kernel 2122. When running 2145 or 2157,
I can get into it using ssh over the network, but the console monitor is turned
off.
The other 64-bit desktop (P4 based) simply won't boot with these two kernels,
ending with kernel panic during initrd. It works fine with kernel 2133.
I am not a linux guru - but if this is still an issue then please let me know
how I can assist.
Doug Morton