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gormine

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Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 55

Updates ruined my xorg and killed my sound [Solved]

After I did a bunch of updates today (everything since around 12/22/07) I lost my sound and my screen is shifted to the left and fonts are messed up. I initially was able to fix the screen when I installed arch by auto-resizing on my monitor but it doesn't do anything now. My sound doesn't work at all.

Here is a list from the log file.

[2007-12-27 17:39] starting full system upgrade
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded libcups (1.3.4-1 -> 1.3.5-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded cups (1.3.4-1 -> 1.3.5-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded dbus-python (0.82.2-1 -> 0.82.4-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded flashplugin (9.0.48.0-1 -> 9.0.115.0-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gail (1.20.1-1 -> 1.20.2-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gnome-python (2.20.0-1 -> 2.20.1-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10 (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-alsa (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.2-1 -> 0.10.3-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-libvisual (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ogg (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-pango (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-python (0.10.8-1 -> 0.10.9-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-theora (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.6-3)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded gstreamer0.10-vorbis (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2007-12-27 17:55] upgraded hal-info (0.20071030-1 -> 0.20071212-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.23.12-2 -> 2.6.23.12-3)
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded libbonobo (2.20.1-1 -> 2.20.3-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded libtorrent (0.11.7-1 -> 0.11.9-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded metacity (2.20.0-1 -> 2.20.1-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] installed vbetool (1.0-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded pm-utils (0.99.3-2 -> 0.99.4-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] !!> rtorrent has changed it's rc file syntax. Update your   <!!
[2007-12-27 17:56] !!> .rtorrent.rc to change anything with get_d_* to d.get_* <!!
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded rtorrent (0.7.7-1 -> 0.7.9-1)
[2007-12-27 17:56] upgraded vte (0.16.10-1 -> 0.16.11-1)

Last edited by gormine (2007-12-28 23:03:48)

gormine

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Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 55

Re: Updates ruined my xorg and killed my sound [Solved]

Kinda fixed the problem. Typing alsaconf at the command line fixed the sound. Remade xorg.conf with X -configure and changed the driver from nvidia to vesa for a temporary fix for the video problem.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Updates ruined my xorg and killed my sound [Solved]

Check the xorg config once more - everything should work fine with nvidia driver, or at least it works fine on both my laptop and desktop.  Perhaps if you post your xorg.conf and post-failure Xorg.0.log we could look for a solution...

gormine

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Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 55

Re: Updates ruined my xorg and killed my sound [Solved]

I don't have a xorg.0.log in /var/log but here is my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    Modeline "1680x1050@60" 154.20 1680 1712 2296 2328 1050 1071 1081 1103
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes     "1680x1050_60" "1024x768_60"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Updates ruined my xorg and killed my sound [Solved]

U upgraded the kernel, so u need re-install the nvidia drives. This is a must every time. U update the kernel, you re-install the nvidia driver. Try that and then get back to us and tell us if it fixed the problem.

gormine

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Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 55

Re: Updates ruined my xorg and killed my sound [Solved]

I finally decided to try and fix the xorg problem again. Fortunately, I fixed it. I started by doing "nvidia-xconfig". This generates a XF86Config file in /etc/X11 which is used if there is no xorg.conf file. I then had to add modes and a modeline. Note: this is the only modeline I could find that workd with a Viewsonic VX2025wm.

Added to "screen"

Modes "1680x1050_60" "1280x1024_60" "1024x768_60" "800x600_60" "640x480_60"

Added to "monitor"

Modeline "1680x1050@60" 154.20 1680 1712 2296 2328 1050 1071 1081 1103 -vsync -hsync

One thing I noticed different about the generated file was a line under the "screen" section. I don't know if it helped or not but here it is, hopefully this helps somebody else.

Option         "metamodes" "1680x1050_60 +0+0;"