Fedora9 logout hang

[cw_ss]

I just installed F9 in a dualboot system, XP in HDD 1 (/dev/sda) and F9 in HDD 2 (/dev/sdb). I use ntldr in xp to boot into F9.

First boot: after setting up 1st user, etc, hang. It did not respond to any key stroke (ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-f1~f6, etc). I pressed the reset button.

Reboot: system boot up smooth. After logout, monitor show black screen. Occasionally, mouse pointer flash, but disappeared immediately and followed by totally blank/black screen of 10~30 second. Also, it did not respond to key input.
If I shutdown directly (not logout), the system power down quickly without showing any messages.

Hardware configuration:
Asus p5evm-hdmi mb (G35 chipset)
E8400
2GB RAM x 2
WD 320GB HDD x 2

I am not sure if it is related to graphics driver. The default driver is intel. If I changed to others, I only got text login. I just downloaded the xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 driver from intellinuxgraphics.org, but not exactly sure how to install it. Please advise, and need your help to solve the above problem.

cw

[SlowJet]

Try the vesa drv in your /etc/X11
cd /etc/X11
ls
gedit xorg.conf

# driver intel???
driver vesta


Your computer looks very new.
If that vesa drv works then update as shown below.
Afterwards try the lastest intel drv in Fedora (s/b there.)

####
in a root terminal
setenforce 0
yum clean all --enablerepo=updates-testing
yum check-update --enablerepo=updates-testing
# do last 2 yum's until until good list from mirrors
# good list? Yes? continue
telinit 3
#drops into command mode
# press enter until logon prompt
# logon as root
# continue

yum update yum --enablerepo=updates-testing
yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing
touch /.autorelabel
reboot

[SlowJet]

To be on the safe side don't use updates-testing as xorg-x11-server-*.906.1 may disable the keyboard.

so
yum update
#then
yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing --exclude=xorg-x11-server-*
# this will leave xorg server at 905.2

SJ

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by cw_ss

I am not sure if it is related to graphics driver. The default driver is intel. If I changed to others, I only got text login. I just downloaded the xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 driver from intellinuxgraphics.org, but not exactly sure how to install it. Please advise, and need your help to solve the above problem.

You do not have to install that driver, since it is already installed on your OS.

The package name is: xorg-x11-drv-i810, and it's the same driver, from the same source. You should not attempt to install that thing, since it may contain/lack certain "tweaks" that are required for F9.

V

[cw_ss]

Thank you for the quick reply.

SlowJet,
The default driver is intel modesetting driver (if I remember correctly, the computer is at home, I am now in office). In the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it shows:

Section "Device"
...
Driver "intel"
EndSection

Yes, I have tried "vesa", "i810", but no luck.

Hlingler,
Noted, thanks!
Btw, what is the right procedure to install. I tried the following, but not sure where it is installed.
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

In fact I am not sure if it is caused by driver. After a cold boot, the desktop graphic is perfect (by default it is gnome). Could it be due to respawn? There is a /etc/event.d/prefdm file (start on stopped rc5), which will invoke /etc/X11/prefdm.

Cheers!

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by cw_ss

Thank you for the quick reply.

SlowJet,
The default driver is intel modesetting driver (if I remember correctly, the computer is at home, I am now in office). In the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it shows:

Section "Device"
...
Driver "intel"
EndSection

Yes, I have tried "vesa", "i810", but no luck.

Hlingler,
Noted, thanks!
Btw, what is the right procedure to install. I tried the following, but not sure where it is installed.
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

That is the correct basic procedure, yes, but there are many possible options to "configure", and the defaults may not be correct for your OS...

I do not know what or where it installed either, because I do not know exactly what you downloaded: was it just the driver, or also the supporting software, or what? The default install location is somewhere under /usr/local/, but that is still a guess.

Also, I am curious if you noticed this message on the intellinuxgraphics website:

Source Code
Compiling and/or upgrading graphics drivers in Linux is a complex and error-prone task. Here is a user guide for how to build the driver from scratch. If you are not experienced doing this, we recommend that you get precompiled packages from one of the many Linux distributions.

Originally Posted by cw_ss

In fact I am not sure if it is caused by driver. After a cold boot, the desktop graphic is perfect (by default it is gnome). Could it be due to respawn? There is a /etc/event.d/prefdm file (start on stopped rc5), which will invoke /etc/X11/prefdm.

Cheers!

There are many things that could be causing the problem(s). Unfortunately, now that you have installed unknown software, it is impossible to be sure what is going on without very detailed info as to what has been done, and your hardware/software configuration.

At this point, recovery could be very complicated. About the only thing I can suggest is that you remove the software that you installed with: make uninstall, and then begin to troubleshoot the problem based on what happens with the "stock" software.

Good Luck,
V

[cw_ss]

Initially I encountered the logout problem after a clean installation from DVD, even network was not connected.
Then I tried other drivers (vesa, i810)installed by default, then I tried yum update. I only tried the xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 after the others failed. xorg-x11-server-sdk was updated for this driver.

I re-installed several times. Now it's clean again, nothing has been updated.

I read somewhere the p5evm-hdmi worked with F8 out of box. Thinking may be I should try that?

[cw_ss]

Some update.

I just installed Fedora 8, and things work fine out of the box. I checked the graphics driver, it's the same intel driver (not sure the version though). I suspect the main reason is that F8 is using inittab, and the x respawn command.

Can someone tell me if the respawn in /etc/event.d/prefdm is causing the problem in F9?
Thanks!