On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:30 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > And then I discovered that if I let it boot to the GUI, even though X > wouldn't start, I could do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console, and having > done so the ethernet was working. Why it wasn't working when I booted > to Recovery Mode I do not know. But at least now I have the net.
Guess what?! You probably don't have power management either. Back in the Good Old Days of Linux there was a 6-12 month window when power management and wireless worked through the standard Linux start-up scripts and other headless mechanisms (eg: actual ACPI scripts that ran on evens such as the lid switch). For reasons unbeknownst to me, that configuration logic was moved into GUI apps such as NM-Applet and the gnome-power-manager; which won't run without an Xserver. In some sense, it's logical for the configuration of those aspects to be a per-user decision, so running them /after/ login makes some sense -- however, that leaves you with a system that can't connect to the network or sleep unless you have a graphical login. I believe that Fedora has integrated at least the nm-applet (or something similar) into the new X greeter (the graphical login) so that may be getting far enough, in your case, to start up the network manager before it crashes, or fails to display. In short: you can't expect to have networking or power management unless you have X running, or you configured it yourself. --Rogan > > I still can't get X to come up. The weird error messages I am getting > (and still googling on) are: > > Refusing to touch device with a bound kernel driver > (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device > (EE) Screens found, but none have a usable configuration > > It won't come up with vesa, nouveau, or nvidia. All three give the same > error messages as above. That tells me that something fundamental is > wrong, 'cause vesa will run on cardboard and spit. I did discover that > Fedora 16 after the upgrade was not running the right proprietary > nVidia driver, even though it was in the repos. I updated it, but X > still won't come up. > > It's late. I'm going to bed. In the morning after coffee I'll have a > much better chance of figuring out what is wrong. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
