On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:52:05 -0400 "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last night, after I successfully upgraded my F13 test desktop from > F13->F14 w/preupgrade, I started the same operation on my F12 laptop. > > The results were not so good. > > X86_64, Asus S96J laptop, w/ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 video card, > IPW3945, 2GB RAM, 350GB disk. ...snip... > 2) X11 no longer starts up. I'm using the radeon driver for my ATI > Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]. It was working just > fine (as fine can be with the radeon driver), but now it dies with a > seg fault with only 3 frames on the stack. I have re-configured to > run the VESA driver, but, I miss my 1200x800 native resolution. VESA > can only do 1024x768. I can attach my (used to be working) xorg.conf > for anyone interested, but it fails in exactly the same way if I > delete it as well. I can try again and send along an Xorg.0.log if it > will help. Sure, can you Send the Xorg.0.log attached to your reply to this? also, you might try with No /etc/X11/xorg.conf at all, and let the driver autodetect things. ...snip... > 3) VMWare-Server won't compile. Seems it can't find the kernel > headers. Its looking in /usr/src/linux/include, but that directory > seems to be missing. (I built it successfully a number of times under > F12.) I have kernel, kernel-devel, and kernel-headers installed. > That used to be enough for VMWare-server. kernel-devel should be it, but you must be running the exact same version of the kernel as your kernel-devel is for it to work. So: yum update reboot yum install kernel-devel You may also be using the PAE kernel, which means you want kernel-PAE-devel instead of kernel-devel. > 4) There are a number of python errors during bootup. They are not > in DMESG. Try /var/log/boot.log or /var/log/messages. > 5) the console screen during bootup contains lines starting with > [ [ mmm.nnnn ] messages that were not visible on F12. It makes > looking at the [OK] and [Failed] service messges difficult. Those are timestamps since boot. They can be very usefull to see when a message was logged so you know it's old, etc. kevin
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