no display after pre-upgrade from F10 to Rawhide

[Claude Jones]

On 6/8/2009 1:36 AM, cornel panceac wrote:
> 2009/6/8 Claude Jones <cjoneslists at tehogeeservices.com
> <mailto: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?

lspci reports:
01:00.0 VGA Compatible Controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 
7300SE] (Rev a1)

I finally got some video but the problem wasn't what I thought, and 
there are still some video issues. I went in and changed my default 
desktop and login manager from KDE to blank in the /sysconfig/desktop 
file; that allowed GDM to open a login screen and once I changed my 
default login desktop to Gnome, I was able to get in. So, it would 
appear that there is a big issue with my KDE installation. All this was 
working perfectly before preupgrade.

Video is currently using the nv driver and it though it appears to be 
detecting my monitor correctly according to system-config-display, it 
auto-configures it to only allow up to 1280X1024 while the monitor's 
native resolution is 1920X1080. If I try to change it to the correct 
resolution from within system-config-display/hardware the video won't 
come up when I restart X.

Also, I'm getting a lot of strange errors from yum - when it first came 
up after the upgrade, it actually gave me a message that yum was not 
present; I had to go in and delete some modules that were no longer in 
use anyway, and download and reinstall a slightly earlier version of yum 
and a couple of associated packages, before it would start working. 
After that, it ran a couple of updates OK; now, I'm getting a bunch of 
dependency errors every time I try to run update having to with sql and 
qt and some libs such as libcrypto.so.7 and libssl.so.7 -- this new 
wrinkle is probably not yum, but a slow mirror or something like that.

I ran preupgrade on this same machine to go from F9 to F10 some many 
months back, but it was a much smoother process...If I knew what to 
pinpoint as the problem, I'd file some bug reports, but right now, it's 
a bit confusing as to what's causing what...

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA