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lr59

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Registered: 2014-08-16

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X issues - no xrandr scale after Xorg update (MBP Retina)

Hi,

I just did a full update (2014-08-16) through pacman, which included an Xorg server update (1.15.2-1 -> 1.16.0-6). My previous full update had been just over a month ago (2014-07-08).

On logging in, KDE basically was running incredibly slowly (ie: clicking the KMenu button would only result in it opening after a few minutes, and this would get no quicker as time went on - it was basically unusable). Moving out my .kde4 directory and letting it be recreated solved this (I haven't had a chance to go through and work out exactly what setting was causing the issue yet).

More importantly. because this is on a MacBook Retina Pro (MacBookPro10,x) - I need to be able to scale the screen to make everything appear at reasonable sizes.

Previously I had an xrandr script running on startup which just ran "xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.666667x0.666667" - which was a good size to view everything at.

The problem is now everytime I run xrandr --scale, the screen goes blank (slightly grey colour) - and I am unable to restore it (even ctrl+alt+F1 doesn't work to get to a console) - resulting in a hard reboot.

I've tried downgrading all of the X related components to the versions I had pre the upgrade, but I still have the same issue...

[2014-08-16 16:13] [PACMAN] downgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.9.0-2 -> 2.9.0-1)
[2014-08-16 16:13] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:20] [PACMAN] downgraded xf86-input-synaptics (1.8.0-2 -> 1.8.0-1)
[2014-08-16 16:40] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-xkbcomp (1.2.4-2 -> 1.2.4-1)
[2014-08-16 16:41] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server-common (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.1-1)
[2014-08-16 16:42] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-server-devel (1.16.0-6 -> 1.15.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded nvidia-utils (340.32-1 -> 337.25-3)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-xrandr (1.4.3-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:43] [PACMAN] downgraded xorg-twm (1.0.8-3 -> 1.0.8-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded mesa-libgl (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded lib32-mesa (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)
[2014-08-16 16:46] [PACMAN] downgraded nouveau-dri (10.2.5-1 -> 10.2.2-1)

Any ideas what the next troubleshooting steps would be? I'm using the Nouveau driver, and at this point I'm basically stuck. I'm also wondering whether the previous KDE issues were related to the X issues.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Luke