Bug 496278 - Xorg cannot start with kernel 2.6.29.1-30
Summary: Xorg cannot start with kernel 2.6.29.1-30
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 494058
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-17 15:50 UTC by Bryan Christ
Modified: 2009-04-29 03:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-04-29 03:09:32 UTC
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lspci output (11.84 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-22 02:15 UTC, Bryan Christ
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Description Bryan Christ 2009-04-17 15:50:30 UTC
Description of problem:

When booting with kernel 2.6.29.1-30 Xorg fails to start.  Instead, I get a blinking cursor in the top-left corner.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install kernel 2.6.29.1-30 via yum
2.  Reboot.
3.  Wait for blinking cursor.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

The problem goes away when booting to the previous 2.6.27.19-170.2.35 kernel.

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2009-04-21 11:46:44 UTC
Please post the output of the command 'lspci -vnn'.

Comment 2 Bryan Christ 2009-04-22 02:15:21 UTC
Created attachment 340664 [details]
lspci output

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2009-04-23 22:16:16 UTC
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 570M [10de:040c] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

What graphics driver is being used? (nouveau is known to be broken.)

Can you attach the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists?

Comment 4 Bryan Christ 2009-04-24 01:37:28 UTC
Yes.  I am using the nouveau driver.  I'll try the nv driver.  My understanding is that the nv driver is being mostly abandonded for the nouveau driver though.

Comment 5 Bryan Christ 2009-04-24 01:51:28 UTC
The problem goes away with the nv driver, but I would suggest this only be a short-term solution.  Certainly with F11 this should be more closely looked at (the nouveau bug).

Comment 6 Chuck Ebbert 2009-04-29 03:09:32 UTC
nouveau should be working in fedora 11

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 494058 ***


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