Re: Preupgrade to rawhide?

[shmuel siegel <fedora shmuelhome mine nu>]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 00:57 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
>   
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> >     
> > > Please provide the output I asked you for.
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > sorry it took so long. I had to change my xorg.conf back to nv from 
> > nouveau so that I could boot my machine.
> >     
> > 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C51G 
> > [GeForce 6100] [10de:0242] (rev a2)
> >     
>
> if your problem is simply that X flat out doesn't work with the nouveau
> driver at present on your card, that'd certainly explain why
> installation doesn't work, because installation uses X just the same way
> as a regular running system does, so it'll be trying to use nouveau. if
> you use the kernel parameter 'xdriver=vesa' when running the installer,
> does that workaround the problem?
>
>   
Mixed bag results. Turning on the xdriver=vesa let the preupgrade run. I 
now have an X-less fc12 system. I don't know what the system is trying 
to run. Xorg.0.log has many messages from nouveau (including GPU freeze) 
even though the command line said vesa and xorg.conf said nv. I didn't 
come up with a combination that worked.