[ale] Fedora 17 and X11

[Chuck Payne]

I did update last night, lucky eth0 worked, and today I logged into
and surprise it back. The weird thing was I try to compile Handbrake
before, it shouldn't have messed up the video drives.

Any thanks guys, I have my F17 back.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:24 PM, askabt <askabt at gmail.com> wrote:
>   On Fedora weird things happen to me after a kernel update.  The video
> driver might not have been compiled into the modules.  Used to reinstall
> Nvidia drivers manually every time Ubuntu kernel was updated. Until they
> added it to the repository.
>
>   On a side note. After the kernel update on my Fedora KVM, it wouldn't
> recognize lvm's anymore.  The new kernel was created without LVM
> support.  So it wouldn't boot the OS. And I don't use Fedora again.
>
> Tip:
>   As for xorg.conf.  As for the new Xorg setup, the xorg.conf is auto
> configured in the background.  You can create your own or just the parts
> of it you want manually configured.  What you don't setup in the
> xorg.conf will be configured automatic on start of Xorg.
>
>
> Further:
>   To generate a xorg.conf.  ctl-F1
>     login as user
>     switch to root or sudo
>     /etc/init.d/gdm stop (turn off gdm, kdm, or lightdm)
>     Xorg -configure
>
> You should have a new default xorg.conf.new in your root directory.
>   Move it to proper location
>     cp /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Restart service
>   /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> GDM will start using your new xorg.conf and automatic move you to
> terminal ctl+F7 or ctl+F8 depending on type of service.
>
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 10:20 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> My X isn't working any more, gdm starts but I can't log in. I want to
>> reconfigure it if possible. I got to many virts on it that I don't
>> want to have reformat.
>>
>> I notice that F17 doesn't use xorg.conf. So how would I got about
>> reconfiguring X11, I did Google and it not my friend, I saw a lot
>> people in the same boat as me, and what was weird a lot of the answer
>> dealt with grub2, which confuse me. Why would you mess with grub to
>> reconfig X11?
>>
>>
>
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