On Sun, 25 May 2008 16:28:21 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Beartooth writes:
> Consequence : those of us with F9 but no GUI are, apparently, up
> the creek. We can't get X to work, and we can't downgrade back to F8.
You can never downgrade to an earlier release. That has never been the
case, and will never be the case, at least not until rpm is replaced by
something else.
You are at Nvidia's mercy, to release a driver that's compatible with
F9. Perhaps it's now clear why non-free binary blobs are a bad idea.
If that's the real underlying problem; I don't know what sort of
card I have, nor how to tell without the GUI. (I have neither the savvy
nor the adroitness, nor yet the eyesight, to build a machine myself; what
I do have is an electronic friend who has those things, who also runs
Fedora, and who shares my attitudes. I take it for granted that anything
he builds will be far better than I'd've managed.)
For aught I know, it could be HP whose mercy I'm at -- the
present monitor, replacing one that died suddenly, seems to be near state
of the art: all my machines were managing (with Fedora and Ubuntu, not
with CentOS) to use it last week; but none of them actually took
advantage of its full size.
I suppose, the time I did in fact downgrade, I must then have
done a fresh install of RH9 over the top of FC1. I would do that now with
F9 and F8, if I could recover a certain few files from the half-install.
But neither ssh nor scp works against it, getting "no route to
host," and my router doesn't see it, either.
I did try "service denyhosts stop" and "service network start" --
but only the former succeeded.
Nor do I have the faintest inkling how to burn those files to CDs
or DVDs without K3B nor Brasero.
So I guess I just shut that machine down, and get by on backup
while I wait for the Anaconda bug to be fixed a/o an nvidia driver to
appear a/o an HP driver ....
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.