On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 16:10 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
Adam Jackson <ajax <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > Should have mentioned that my Rawhide is a VirtualBox 4.1.18 guest (which
> > uses the vesa driver).
^^^^
Nope:
I booted in graphical mode, then when the black screen with the
eternal spinning
cursor appeared, switched to VT3 and grabbed Xorg.0.log - see
http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/Xorg.0.log
... contains:
[ 19.757] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 19.757] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 19.757] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 19.819] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 19.819] (**) |-->Screen "Screen[0]" (0)
[ 19.819] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor[0]"
[ 19.819] (**) | |-->Device "Device[0]"
...
[ 21.016] (II) VBoxVideo(0): VirtualBox guest additions video driver
version 4.1.18
If this were a video driver problem you would want to confirm that by
varying xorg.conf between vboxvideo and vesa, and using 'X -retro' from
runlevel 3 to see if you get the ugly black/white stipple. If only one
driver works, the other is at fault; if both work, something about the
rest of the session is to blame.
But it's almost certainly not a driver problem, since if you can see the
spinning cursor then the driver is working and it's the session busily
doing nothing.
- ajax