On Sun, 25 May 2008 16:28:21 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Beartooth writes: > >> Consequence : those of us with F9 but no GUI are, apparently, up >> the creek. We can't get X to work, and we can't downgrade back to F8. > > You can never downgrade to an earlier release. That has never been the > case, and will never be the case, at least not until rpm is replaced by > something else. > > You are at Nvidia's mercy, to release a driver that's compatible with > F9. Perhaps it's now clear why non-free binary blobs are a bad idea. If that's the real underlying problem; I don't know what sort of card I have, nor how to tell without the GUI. (I have neither the savvy nor the adroitness, nor yet the eyesight, to build a machine myself; what I do have is an electronic friend who has those things, who also runs Fedora, and who shares my attitudes. I take it for granted that anything he builds will be far better than I'd've managed.) For aught I know, it could be HP whose mercy I'm at -- the present monitor, replacing one that died suddenly, seems to be near state of the art: all my machines were managing (with Fedora and Ubuntu, not with CentOS) to use it last week; but none of them actually took advantage of its full size. I suppose, the time I did in fact downgrade, I must then have done a fresh install of RH9 over the top of FC1. I would do that now with F9 and F8, if I could recover a certain few files from the half-install. But neither ssh nor scp works against it, getting "no route to host," and my router doesn't see it, either. I did try "service denyhosts stop" and "service network start" -- but only the former succeeded. Nor do I have the faintest inkling how to burn those files to CDs or DVDs without K3B nor Brasero. So I guess I just shut that machine down, and get by on backup while I wait for the Anaconda bug to be fixed a/o an nvidia driver to appear a/o an HP driver .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
