Can't upgrade f10 to f11: X startup failed, detected GPU lockup

Deron Meranda deron.meranda at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 16:56:44 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM,
n2xssvv.g02gfr12930<n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  I use rpm and yum (command line) frequently.  But I don't use
the graphical tools very often, so yumex was new to me.  Is it just a
front-end to yum, and is there anything that yumex does that yum can't?


> 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.

Normally, adding yum repositories is not too hard; but I'm not very
familiar with which repositories exist and which ones I should try using.

You mentioned the RPM Fusion repositories; where do I find out
more about that?


However, that's fine for an already-running system.  But I'm not aware
of how to configure any of this when booting from the F11 DVD.  How
in the install/upgrade process can you tell it to do something different?


> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/14/fedora-10-and-the-evolution-of-xorg/

Thanks for the link.  I was vaguely aware of some of that, but it
is interesting nonetheless.


> 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.

Agreed, either that or somehow get it to use a newer/fixed version
somehow (which I hope is fixed by F12).


> Hope these pointers help you resolve your problems.

Thanks again
-- 
Deron Meranda




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