Re: [gdm-list] gdm won't run after upgrade...

[Ray Strode <halfline gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Morgan Read <mstuff read org nz> wrote:
> I now have to make some admissions:)
> I was using nvidia drivers from rpmfusion on f12 before the upgrade;
> after the upgrade to fb14 they no longer worked - I think it was more
> complicated than that because I was using drivers compiled via akmod for
> the CCRMA rt kernel:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1395490
>
> Anyway, it didn't work after upgrade - I wasn't surprised.  So, I
> removed anything nvidia, akmod and anything else I could think of that
> might be getting in the way.  I installed the mesa packages for nouveau
> and commented out rdblacklist=nouveau in /boot/grub/grub.conf.  That
> caused the screen resolution to be reset during boot (when it hadn't
> before) which I assumed meant I had the driver and Xorg side of things
> working - but perhaps not...
>
> (iirc I had looked over Xorg.log which prompted the above)
>
> Anyway, /var/log/gdm/:0.log & /var/log/Xorg.0.log copied below - which
> seem to show a lack of a driver to my eyes, but after taking the system
> back to nouveau from the proprietary nvidia drivers where to now?

In your log I see this:

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

You shouldn't need a config file with nouveau.  I'd try just removing
it (or tucking it away somewhere where X won't find it)

--Ray