On 14/09/09 15:53, Deron Meranda wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:39 AM,
n2xssvv.g02gfr12930<n2xssvv.g02gfr12930@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This system worked fine with both F9 and F10. I'm using the
on-board graphics chip on the motherboard (ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM)
which is supposedly an nVidia GeForce 6150LE.
Anyway during the early F11 anaconda install it always outputs:
WARNING : X startup failed, falling back to text mode
I managed to upgrade using Yumex and the nvidia drivers found in the RPM
Fusion repositories. Naturally I updated the GUI stuff first, in my case the
KDE and Gnome window managers, and the X-Video drivers.
I've never used that before. Do you know of any recommended
documentation any place?
To be honest, this is really a headless server; I only ever use the
video output to do these installs/upgrades. I'd be happy with
text mode; except it is exceptionally crippled now as to be worthless.
Perhaps you should try setting the video driver to use to the standard vga
during the upgrade. The nouveau nvidia drivers are new to F11.
I'm installing from the standard DVD image. How do you go about
telling it to use a different driver?
If you're referring to the initial menu, I tried the second option,
something about using a "basic" video driver. It too fails, and
reverts to text mode. Though rather than a GPU lockup, it complains
about not having any compatible modes.
Whatever drivers were standard in F9 or F10 worked just fine.
Are they on the F11 install image and how can I tell it to
use those instead of the new broken one?
After upgrading you may well still have your system using the ext3
filesystem. I also managed to upgrade my Fedora 11 from ext3 to ext4
successfully, but I still made backups beforehand, not to mention good
preparations. NOTE, do not upgrade your boot partition to ext4 as grub does
not support ext4 as far as I know.
I'm on top of the ext3/4 thing. Thanks though!
yumex is a gui application that uses yum unfortunately. But yum itself
is not a gui application and can install and update from remote
repositories. These repositories locations are defined in *.repo files
that can be found in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory, and they are plain
text files. Try "man yum" for more information. This will ensure you
will be updating to the latest drivers which may well have fixed the
problem you are having.
The website below has a few tips
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/14/fedora-10-and-the-evolution-of-xorg/
As far as I can tell you probably need to configure for the old nv video
drivers rather than the nouveau ones it's trying to use.
Hope these pointers help you resolve your problems.
JB
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