[YLUG] Update fedora 10

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

So, I restart from scratch with a new disk !!
I installed from the DVD, and I got a kernel 2.6.27.7-134. I looks like
that I has been automatically upgraded. But the big problem is that I 
still cannot get the X session running. As before it frozes after I get 
the Fedora image.
Before it was working while I supected problem with the X session:
slow response time with some applications, no ATL-CTL working.
My card is a Radeon RV100 QY.
Are the xorg drivers bugged ?
Can I choose another driver ? IF yes, how can I do it in text mode.

Thank for your help.



> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, mike cloaked wrote:
>>
>>> Exactly how did you update from FC7?
>>>
>>> i.e. to be explicit - did you
>>
>> 2 weeks ago I did the update by running a yum upgrade
>>
>> 2 weeks ago IO updated from the DVD (anaconda): of course from the iso
>> image.
>>
>> yesterday from yumex.
>
> Well now I am confused...
> So you did yum upgrade initially to change your version from FC7 to
> F10 - I don't understand whether you mean you then did some kind of
> upgrade to that from the DVD? Or did you do a new fresh install from
> scratch. In addition I now don't know what you did with yumex. However
> F10 is very very different to FC7 (and note that it is F10 and not
> FC10 even though package names are tagged wit the .fc10 suffix for
> special reasons because Fedora packages are now part of a unified
> Fedora Collection, and not Fedora Core as it was at the time of FC7)
>
> If you still have old versions of your configs lying around and did a
> yum upgrade from version 7 to version 10 then you will almost
> certainly get problems....I would strongly recommend that you do not
> try to get that system working as the upgrade from 7 to 10 is too huge
> a change.
>
> I would strongly suggest that you start from scratch and do an install
> from the DVD and make sure that you ask anaconda to format the root
> partition during that install. If you have a wired connection during
> the install then it will automatically configure a wired interface for
> you and NetworkManager will use it.  You can install to the root ( / )
> partition and leave your other partitions untouched, provided you ask
> it to do a custom disk partition when you get to that section of the
> install.  Always make a backup of all files ahead of this in case it
> all goes wrong - this is standard advice.
>
> Make sure that you read the release notes, and also the install guide for F10
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/
>
> The install guide will also give you information on other methods for
> the install, including hard drive and http, plus nfs installs.
>
> Once you have the install running, make sure you select your packages
> and it will pull the necessary files from the DVD, and during the
> firstboot you are asked to make a user area, and then log in to that
> user area in gnome, then before you start configuring anything else
> make sure you then do either:
> yum -y update
> or
> use PackageKit which is now the default background process that runs
> yum for you - and let that update your system.
>
> Note that by default you are unable to login as root so make sure you
> do create a non-root user during the install.
>
> Then re-boot after the yum update as you will have a new kernel and
> many other updated packages.
>
> Only then can you start either retrieving old user files and setting
> up the system as you wish. At this stage you should already have a
> working X and be logged in to a desktop.
>
> You can of course switch out of X to a VT if you wish to use a command
> line only. However it is easier to open a set of terminal windows in
> the desktop and work from there.
>
> Also note that by default you will have SElinux enabled and enforcing.
> You should read about SElinux so that you can work with it.
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f10/en-US/
>
> If you feel that SElinux is too much for you then you can switch it to
> permissive.  Note that if you disable SElinux then getting it back can
> be quite a pain! However leaving it permissive will allow you to work
> but you will get SElinux warnings.
>
>> From what you have posted it is not clear what state your system is
> in, and in this case it is very difficult for other people to offer
> you advice. If you have a cleanly installed system and can quote
> exactly what you did when a problem occurs and can also provide the
> results of log files and a good description then others can try to
> triage the problem and suggest a solution.
>
> I hope this helps.
>

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