On 07/12/2012 07:47 PM, zxq9 wrote: > On 07/11/2012 08:03 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, David Crick wrote: >> >>> It looks like Mark may have hit the nail on the head >>> by identifying the ati-driver. I will try on my second >>> machine here and confirm whether it works for me >>> as well. >> >> 'Fraid not. My three machines all have intel graphics chips >> and SL62. Two with identical motherboards: one upgraded smoothly the >> other >> didn't. The third is a laptop and the upgrade broke it. >> > > Just helped a guy out in the slforum IRC yesterday with this same > problem on SL 6.1 (nVidia graphics on his system -- the graphics drivers > aren't the issue). The resolution was a downgrade. > > The specific problem in the xorg log was that the evdev input module > couldn't load because of a version mismatch. There may be other > mismatches, but that was the point xorg gave up. > > Whenever the graphics drivers load first GDM will display but no input > is possible, if the graphics is scheduled after evdev then x won't give > you a graphical indication that anything is moving. xorg driver should have to rebuild with the right xorg packages in the buildsys repo (it was one of our problems too). -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"