F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Nov 3 18:51:55 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 14:52:05 -0400,
  "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Using nomodeset might get you by.


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