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Youdaman

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-14

Posts: 41

Remove xorg?

[root@serenity youdaman]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
:: community is up to date
:: ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with xorg. Remove xorg? [Y/n]

What's going on here? I'd recently done a previous pacman -Syu and I recall that glut was replaced by freeglut and pacman itself was updated. After that I'd tried to install the wine and ttf-ms-fonts packages unsuccessfully -- wine wanted to replace freeglut with glut (reversing the above upgrade) and both packages complained about numerous existing files that made their installation fail.

Now I'm being asked if I want to remove xorg? What the hell's going on?

Is it to do with glut/freeglut/pacman?

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Remove xorg?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg7

A Quick Fix for the Bitstream-Vera Conflict

If you see a message that ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with xorg:

   1. Exit the pacman session by answering no.
   2. Run pacman -Rd xorg
   3. Run pacman -Syu
   4. Run pacman -S xorg
   5. Update your paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Youdaman

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-14

Posts: 41

Re: Remove xorg?

Isn't hitting y to remove xorg the same thing?

Anyhow, I had hit y just for the hell of it, thinking I'd reinstall xorg after the upgrade. I was part way through when I read your post and cancelled, so I've removed xorg as per your instructions and proceeded with the upgrade. Fingers crossed it all works -- thanks!

Youdaman

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-14

Posts: 41

Re: Remove xorg?

Well apart from having to reboot to convince my system that startx was no longer in /usr/X11R6/bin, and having to manually install xterm, things seem to be going alright. Hmmm... xterm now has a menu? 0.o

I had to uninstall/reinstall the nvidia package, and even though it complained it failed things are working... weird. Anyhow, here's hoping everything's fine

Youdaman

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-14

Posts: 41

Re: Remove xorg?

Right, so starting xterm with +tb gets rid of the tool bar... also I noticed XMMS' menu has resorted to a basic font, most likely because of the new location of xorg fonts?

Youdaman

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-14

Posts: 41

Re: Remove xorg?

I also noticed the button mapping for my Intellimouse was fubar'ed. I've updated the wiki with the required fix: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … ot_working

PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: Remove xorg?

Right, so starting xterm with +tb gets rid of the tool bar...

Another more "permanent" solution is to put the following line into ~/.Xdefaults

XTerm*toolBar: off

To activate any changed settings:

xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults