F12 to Rawhide upgrade

Leigh Scott leigh123linux at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 25 22:32:44 UTC 2010


I had the same issue, it's due to the F12 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau version
being higher than the rawhide version.



On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:24 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Over the weekend I tried this via yum and the upgrade/install part went
> fine.  But once I rebooted, the gui wouldn't work.  Meaning, at the
> gdm/login screen, it was garbled.  I downgraded xorg-x11-server-comment
> (was 1 or 2 packages total) to the F12 (may have been upgrade/test one)
> version, and that got me the login screen (although it didn't show my
> username, just "other).  But once at the login screen, my mouse/keyboard
> (wireless desktop) wouldn't work at all.  I then aborted and reinstalled
> F12.  Nouveau chipset/card for video.
> 
> Not big priority to run it, but just wanted to report what I initially
> ran into.
> 
> 
> Mike Chambers
> Madisonville, KY
> 
> "Best lil town on Earth!"
> 




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