Bug 496278 – Xorg cannot start with kernel 2.6.29.1-30

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Bug 496278 - Xorg cannot start with kernel 2.6.29.1-30

Summary:	Xorg cannot start with kernel 2.6.29.1-30

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 494058

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	10
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2009-04-17 11:50 EDT by Bryan Christ
Modified:	2009-04-28 23:09 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2009-04-28 23:09:32 EDT
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Description Bryan Christ 2009-04-17 11:50:30 EDT

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.
  
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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 07:46:44 EDT

Please post the output of the command 'lspci -vnn'.

Comment 2 Bryan Christ 2009-04-21 22:15:21 EDT

Created attachment 340664 [details]
lspci output

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2009-04-23 18:16:16 EDT

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 2009-04-23 21:37:28 EDT

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 2009-04-23 21:51:28 EDT

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 2009-04-28 23:09:32 EDT

nouveau should be working in fedora 11

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

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