On 19/11/09 23:41, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I have the same problem. I upgraded a laptop from F11 to F12 using > preupgrade and after rebooting no GUI. I'm running the nouveau driver > and it worked fine under F11. > > Paolo > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:01 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 > <n2xssvv.g02gfr12930@xxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:n2xssvv.g02gfr12930@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > I tried to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 11 to 12 today, using yumex. > The result sucks. > > The latest kernel cannot run a GUI > > The only video driver that appears to work is vesa, (should use either > nv or nouveau for nvidia graphics), and therefore not at required > resolution, or openGL applications. > > The display configuration program fails to run > > Unless someone can suggest what to do I will be reinstalling Fedora 11 > > My advice to others based on this experience is not to install/upgrade > to Fedora 12 for next couple of months, when hopefully these serious > problems will have been fixed. > > I appreciate the amount of work people put in for new releases, but I > would rather new releases were delayed, rather than be broken with > regard what most users require. > > I managed to upgrade my PC from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 using yumex > successfully, hence my disappointment! > > JB > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > Paolo, I got the GUI up by adding the nomodeset to the kernel options found in grub.conf, (see below). kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 rhgb vga=795 nomodeset You should be able to try this from the grub boot menu. JB -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
