On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Peter J. Stieber<developer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just upgraded an x86_64 Fedora 10 system to Fedora 11. Now when I run > startx I get the following complaint. > > (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory > > Then the screen output says... > > Fatal server error: > Detected GPU lockup > > My Fedora 10 system was using the Fedora Xvfb package to perform offline > processing. I stopped that server, but I'm still getting the error. > > $ lspci > ... > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 > [GeForce 6200 LE] (rev a1) > ... > > I'm wondering how to go about fixing this. I know this probably isn't > enough to "go on", but just ask, and I'll provide more information. > > Pete > Hmm... this is just a pointer. At least you'll know what /dev/fb0 is for. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-3.html "A framebuffer device is an abstraction for the graphic hardware. It represents the frame buffer of some video hardware, and allows application software to access the graphic hardware through a well-defined interface, so that the software doesn't need to know anything about the low-level interface stuff [Taken from Geert Uytterhoeven's framebuffer.txt in the linux kernel sources]" http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html "You'll need to create the framebuffer device in /dev. You need one per framebuffer device, so all you need to do is to type in mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 for the first one. Subsequent ones would be in multiples of 32, so for example to create /dev/fb1, you would need to type in mknod /dev/fb1 c 29 32, and so on up to the eighth framebuffer device (mknod /dev/fb7 c 29 224)" Just to check the MAJOR and MINOR numbers (also do "man mknod") http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9807.3/0929.html It looks like the preupgrade process needs some polishing. HTH, ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
