Christopher Martin wrote:
Anywhere I should be looking to find what's causing the lock? I haven't used a Linux with X in about 7 years now so I am pretty much a newb in that respect, to the point I don't even know how to get a text shell instead of X.
CTRL+ALT+F1
It's a dual Xeon 2.2 GHz with 768MB RDRAM and a 20 GB hard disk for experimenting with. It's running an older model ATI card, of around the 7000 vintage (it there a way I can find out without getting it out of the box? It's such a pain to get it out).
lspci should give you a pretty good idea.
And the worse part of it all is re-installing. I have to boot off a FreeBSD and wipe the disk before I can get it to boot the Fedora DVD again no matter what I tell the BIOS about boot order. Any ideas?
I'd perhaps try dropping to the text console and running a yum update as root. There might be an update to the X packages that wasn't in the fedora DVD.
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