Thanks for the info! I put in a more recent card than the Radeon 7000, so I would suggest there is a feature required that the 7000 doesn't have, or something similar, but I will try the update trick and see what happens.
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Gillies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 9:55 AM > To: Christopher Martin > Cc: slug@slug.org.au > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5 crashes on logon > > Christopher Martin wrote: > > Anywhere I should be looking to find what's causing the lock? I haven't > used > > a Linux with X in about 7 years now so I am pretty much a newb in that > > respect, to the point I don't even know how to get a text shell instead > of > > X. > > CTRL+ALT+F1 How could I forget that?!? Damn, I suck. > > It's a dual Xeon 2.2 GHz with 768MB RDRAM and a 20 GB hard disk for > > experimenting with. It's running an older model ATI card, of around the > 7000 > > vintage (it there a way I can find out without getting it out of the > box? > > It's such a pain to get it out). > > lspci should give you a pretty good idea. > > > And the worse part of it all is re-installing. I have to boot off a > FreeBSD > > and wipe the disk before I can get it to boot the Fedora DVD again no > matter > > what I tell the BIOS about boot order. > > > > Any ideas? > > I'd perhaps try dropping to the text console and running a yum update as > root. There might be an update to the X packages that wasn't in the > fedora DVD. Will do. Again, thanks for the help! BTW, I thought that lspci wasn't present or something for a while, but then I remembered to "su -"... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
