Re: Fedora core 2 upgrade problems: x.org and kernel
From: Mats Löfdahl (mats_lofdahl_at_yahoo.se)
Date: 05/31/04
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 00:41:54 +0200
Mats Löfdahl <mats_lofdahl@yahoo.se> writes:
> Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> writes:
>
>> It really does not matter, FC2 will work just fine with either. But
>> if you do want to use x.org you need to remove the XFree86 RPM's,
>> remove the /etc/X11/XF86Config and install the equivalent xorg
>> RPM's then configure the new xorg using system-config-display. It's
>> takes a bit work and time, to get you started with this use rpm -qa
>> "*XFree86*" and download the equivalent xorg RPM's and install them
>> after removing the old XFree86 ones. You need to also delete/rename
>> the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and use system-config-display to
>> configure (more work then it's worth)
>
> Right now it's trying to use x.org. At least I believe it said so in
> those error messages, although I didn't write down more than the
> commands it wanted me to run.
>
> Is there an easy way to make it ignore x.org and run XF86 by default?
> I guess I could uninstall the x.org rpms, but some change in the setup
> might be needed, too, right? Or maybe the x.org rpms can be left alone
> and only the setup changed?
>
> I don't really care which X it's using, as long as it works...
Xorg was installed and running, XFree86 rpms were already gone. I
removed /etc/X11/XF86Config and edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which had
some references to XFree86 in it. It works fine now.
My optical USB mouse sometimes stop working, when it happens it's
usually pretty soon after booting. Sometimes I can get it working
again by moving it from one USB port to another, but usually only for
a short while. Not sure what to do about this.
>>> I also noticed that the kernel is still a 2.4 version, so the yum
>>> upgrade did not upgrade to the 2.6 kernel that's supposed to be in
>>> FC2.
>>
>> This might be a blessing, depending on your motherboard, BIOS
>> settings and hardware the FC2 kernel might not load, review this NG
>> and others before trying the new 2.6.5-1.358 kernel for FC2. But to
>> install it (if you want);
>>
>> First figure which one to install;
>>
>> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n' kernel
>>
>> then as root something like (to install it);
>>
>> rpm -i
>> ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.5-1.358.i686.rpm
>>
>> (watch out for word wrap, the command is one line; rpm -i<space>the_rest )
>
> Thanks, I will try this. The 2.6 kernel is the main reason I wanted to
> upgrade, so I hope it works.
It turns out it was available in the yum repository, so I just did
"yum install kernel", which downloaded and installed the 2.6.5-1.358
kernel. First time I tried to boot with it, there was a lot of error
messages and it never came up. I went back to the 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
kernel, updated and installed some other stuff with yum. Thought I'd
give the 2.6 kernel another shot and at least write down some of the
error messages. But this time it came up. I don't know if the
difference was the updates/installs or that this time I watched it
boot and caught that it had detected a new keyboard type, and it
wanted my blessing before doing some change to the setup.
I was immediately struck by one of the things that makes me want the
2.6 kernel: It turned the fan down. Great!
When I logged in, however, things got worse. The screen immediately
went black with some error message, but I could make that disappear by
moving the mouse or hitting a key on the keyboard. (Actually, it was
not the mouse, because that did not work, so I had to use the
touchpad.) I had to keep active with touchpad and keyboard for the
screen not to turn black again.
I could open a terminal window but writing commands in it was hard,
because each key press resulted in multiple characters being typed. I
tried to run the screen saver setup tool (because I thought maybe I
could do something about the black screen that way). I tried to turn
off the screensaver altogether, but the tool did not manage to save
its config file.
I went back to 2.4, had to give my blessing to the corresponding
non-detection of the newly, by 2.6, discovered keyboard type, and
could then login as usual.
I'm trying to read up on what people have had to do to install the 2.6
kernel under FC1, but if somebody has a clue as to what I should do
under FC2, some advice would be much appreciated. If at all possible,
I don't want to do anything that would break going back to 2.4, should
that become necessary.
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