Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
I rebooted my computer tonight and got Welcome to maintenance mode It happens for all the kernels I have loaded on the computer. Its giving me obscure (to me) udevd errors. udevd[ When I log in to maintenance mode and snoop around, everything seems fine. boot.log is clean, Xorg.0.log is

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I rebooted my computer tonight and got Welcome to maintenance mode It happens for all the kernels I have loaded on the computer. Its giving me obscure (to me) udevd errors. udevd[ When I log in to maintenance mode and

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:46 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: Is this related to regenerating initramfs ? Possibly.  Do you have any older kernels listed in GRUB?  Can you boot from them? I have 5 kernels installed and they all generate the same error. If not, you

Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-13 Thread linux guy
I installed the proprietary nvidia drivers using the isntructions here: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/ My computer locks up after being logged into a KDE session for a minute or so with them. How do I switch back to the

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-13 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:38 PM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I installed the proprietary nvidia drivers using the isntructions here: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/ My computer locks up after being logged

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-13 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the quick reply. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:42 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: Also, since that guide (unnecessarily) tells you to regenerate your initramfs, re-regenerate it or restore the backup copy you made. How do you regenerate it ? Is that the dracut

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-13 Thread linux guy
I had to add a --force but it worked like a charm. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: