no display after pre-upgrade from F10 to Rawhide

[cornel panceac]

2009/6/8 Claude Jones <cjoneslists at tehogeeservices.com>

> I had a functioning F10 and decided to pre-upgrade to Rawhide/F11. It
> worked somewhat, but I'm left with one major problem. I can't get x to
> start. I had been running the nvidia driver from rpmfusion. That's been
> removed and xorg.conf was deleted. Nouveau failed to start. I reinstalled
> the nvidia driver, and that failed to start. I removed it again, deleted
> xorg.conf again, and nv refused to run on next boot. I do get the Grub
> splash screen at the very beginning of the boot process - isn't that
> dependent on x?
>
> Anyhow, I'm not sure where to go with this. I can install/uninstall stuff
> from repos from the command line. Suggestions welcome...


until someone has a better idea, try appending

nomodeset

to kernel line in grub, then, if it works,  in grub.conf .
btw, what video card?

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