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" <
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>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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