no display after pre-upgrade from F10 to Rawhide

[Jim]

On 06/08/2009 09:47 AM, Claude Jones wrote:
> 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...
>
There is the possibility that that the driver version for Nvidia and 
your Video card has changed. How old is your video card ?
Go back to Nvidia.com and check your video card and see what version it 
is compatible with.
This happens quit a bit with Nvidia cards as they get older.