Fedora 12 upgrade sucks

[n2xssvv.g02gfr12930]

On 19/11/09 23:41, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> I have the same problem.  I upgraded a laptop from F11 to F12 using
> preupgrade and after rebooting no GUI.  I'm running the nouveau driver
> and it worked fine under F11.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:01 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
> <n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com
> <mailto:n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I tried to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 11 to 12 today, using yumex.
>     The result sucks.
> 
>     The latest kernel cannot run a GUI
> 
>     The only video driver that appears to work is vesa, (should use either
>     nv or nouveau for nvidia graphics), and therefore not at required
>     resolution, or openGL applications.
> 
>     The display configuration program fails to run
> 
>     Unless someone can suggest what to do I will be reinstalling Fedora 11
> 
>     My advice to others based on this experience is not to install/upgrade
>     to Fedora 12 for next couple of months, when hopefully these serious
>     problems will have been fixed.
> 
>     I appreciate the amount of work people put in for new releases, but I
>     would rather new releases were delayed, rather than be broken with
>     regard what most users require.
> 
>     I managed to upgrade my PC from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 using yumex
>     successfully, hence my disappointment!
> 
>     JB
> 
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Paolo,

	I got the GUI up by adding the nomodeset to the kernel options found in
grub.conf, (see below).

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 rhgb vga=795 nomodeset

	You should be able to try this from the grub boot menu.

JB