Preupgrade to rawhide?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 22:51 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 01:11 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> >   
> >> If I am reading the X.org logs correctly, I am using nv and not nouveau. 
> >>     
> > That's possible, but can you post the relevant logs to confirm it?
> >   
> I was referring to the xorg log of the running f11 system. The display 
> config dialog box also said that I am using nv so I trust it. 

That's a bad idea. system-config-display does not tell you what X.org
auto-configuration would do. It has its own, quite different,
configuration logic, and it gives you the result of that. what s-c-d
says is not necessarily either a) what you're currently actually using
or b) what X server would auto-detect.

> Besides, 
> when I deliberately switched to nouveau with the display dialog and 
> tried to reset x, x got into a permanent retry loop.
> >> Maybe nouveau is not supporting my device. 
> >>     
> >
> > That's probably it. There is a small set of cards that are known not to
> > work with nouveau which we blacklist to use nv instead. Yours may be one
> > of these. The output of 'lspci -nn' would help me confirm that.
> >   
> So it could be that the install is trying to use a nouveau driver and 
> this is causing my hang. 

Um. Not really. This blacklisting is done in the X server's
auto-detection code, which the installer uses just like a regular
desktop does.

> How do I verify?

Please provide the output I asked you for.

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