Fedora 12 upgrade sucks

[Mikkel]

N James Bridge wrote:
> On the strength of this, I installed the nvidia 173 driver (right for my
> card). Result: nice blue intro, then blackness, followed by despair. I
> then tried booting into level 3 and uninstalled the nvidia drivers. More
> blackness. At this stage, not being that clever with the cli approach, I
> gave up and reinstalled the whole thing.
> 
> I thought that if the nvidia driver wasn't correct, or wasn't there, the
> nouveau one would be used. This has happened before when kernel upgrades
> get ahead of the driver. So presumably some vital setting got corrupted?
> What _should_ I have done to correct it?
> 
The first thing I would try is to delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf - the
system will then try to auto-config X when you start the X server.

Mikkel
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