I've been through a lot with Fedora as FC4 was my first venture into linux; during which I had to do a lot of manual compiling and configuring. It's gotten a lot better, and I'd be happy to help with any issues you run into. (any that I can help anyway.)

Tip: If you have a broadcom wireless card, I'd recomend ndiswrapper over bcm43xx for now. You'll have to blacklist two bcm43xx kernel modules before loading ndiswrapper kernel module.

-j

>---- Original Message ----

>From:"Tuna" <tuna@supertunaman.com>

>To:"Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>

>Subject:Re: fedora 7 down after update

>Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:09:35 -0700 (MST)

>--------------------

>Glad that caught my eye--I'm going to install Fedora on my laptop pretty

>soon!

>

>> found it; and i think this has happend to me before.

>> gdm was missing. I dont know how but the gdm package was not on my system.

>> I just ran yum install gdm then reboot, and I was back in business.

>

>> On 7/24/07, Josh Coffman wrote:

>>>

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> I'm working on this now. I'm hoping someone is online and happens

>to

>>> know a solution off the top of their head. I started an package update

>>> on my

>>> fedora 7 box and let it go. The machine went to screen saver mode after

>>> a

>>> while. When I went to check on it, it wasn't responsive expect for

>>> barely a

>>> flicker of the screen. (i use a blank screen saver.)

>>> I switched to the console (ctrl+alt+1) and rebooted. I'm thinking

>the

>>> install might have still been running.. maybe.

>>>

>>> The update included a kernel update.

>>>

>>> When it booted, it stops when trying to load GDM and the message on

>>> screen is:

>>>

>>> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

>>>

>>> I do have the nvidia driver installed with the kernel module from

>>> livna.

>>> I wonder if its having a problem. In the past though, I would get a

>>> screen

>>> notifying me that xorg crashed while trying to start and offer to update

>>> xorg.conf.

>>>

>>> I tried yum update (had to remove ffmpeg to get the update to work)

>>> and

>>> rebooted, but still the same result. It appears packages are updated.

>I

>>> don't know what the problem is or how to fix it. Quite frankly, I'm

>>> tired of

>>> messing around with stuff like this and just want to watch tv with my

>>> wife.

>>> I would really appreciate any help.

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>> josh

>>>

>>>

>>>

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