Failed Migration to Linux

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Aug 11 21:18:45 UTC 2012


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 16:07:08 -0500,
   Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>
>It is a desktop - AMD FX9tm0-6200 Six-Core Processor  3.80 GHz
>8 GB ram

>On Fedora I didn't have any errors until it did the ~380
>updates.  Then it wouldn't boot, but instead gave error:
>"GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon" and then
>wouldn't go past a line that mentions verion 4.0 of
>something, or something like that.

As you mentioned you have a GTX560 Ti, I checked the Nouveau pages for 
information on how it is supported and it looks like it should be with 
current versions of Fedora. I am not sure if the release time f16 images 
would support it though. But since you tried f17, that would be expected 
to work.


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