Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:56:37 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> at this point i've given up. > > OK :-) that's really very interesting. this time the update worked out as a charm. no need to get rid of the old xorg.conf. it just installed n

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > at this point i've given up. OK :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailin

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:03:41 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Juan R. de Silva > wrote: >> Moving out of the way xorg.conf worked out as you suggested.  I am now >> in F14 using vesa driver.  Thanks for that. :-) > > No worries. > >>> 3) /usr/sbin/akmods --force >> >>

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Moving out of the way xorg.conf worked out as you suggested.  I am now > in F14 using vesa driver.  Thanks for that. :-) No worries. >> 3) /usr/sbin/akmods --force > > But this produced the following errors: > > [r...@mobyfedora]# /usr/sb

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> 1) mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-moved-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) Moving out of the way xorg.conf worked out as you suggested. I am now in F14 using vesa driver. Thanks for that. :-) > 2) yum install kernel-devel dkms akmod-nvidia \ > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-lib

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > > mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-moved-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) > yum install kernel-devel dkms akmod-nvidia > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 time > /usr/sbin/akmods --force > dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -

Re: cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > Any suggestions, please?  I have NVIDIA graphic card on board. Sounds like you might have an xorg.conf configuration file which uses the nvidia driver? If so, that driver probably does not exist in your system after you've upgraded to F1

cannot boot after F12 to F14 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I've had F12 installed on Dell Latitude D820 as a part of multi distro system. Today, just for curiosity sake, I've tried to upgrade it directly to F14 (still in beta until tomorrow) using PreUpgrade utility. After upgrade completed and reported successful, the system stalls at boot. It shows