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Greenstuff

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 64

Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

Hi,
I wanted to update my system today when I noticed the following:

:: xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy. Remove xf86-video-intel-legacy? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: xorg-server: conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

Now I don't want to remove xf86-video-intel-legacy. My computer's a bit old and needs it for its display. My question is, how do I resolve this conflict?

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

As far as I know, xf86-video-intel-legacy is no longer supported, so you should either try xf86-video-intel or the vesa driver or stick with the older xorg server.

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

You cannot. The latest xorg-server does not support the legacy driver. Quite a few people with older machines were able to use the latest intel driver if they enabled KMS, so you might give that a try (do a forum search on xf86-video-intel for more info).

Failing that you need to tell pacman to hold all xorg related packages.

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ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

Failing that you need to tell pacman to hold all xorg related packages.

*Shudders* Oh, now THAT system would be fun to maintain 6 months from now...

Hope the xf86-video-intel-stable drivers work for you. Holding xorg-related packages is no fun at all.

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grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

xf86-video-intel-stable is probably not an option - according to messages on AUR it doesn't build against the new xorg server. Which is not surprising.

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ariszlo

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Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

Now I don't want to remove xf86-video-intel-legacy. My computer's a bit old and needs it for its display. My question is, how do I resolve this conflict?

pacman -Syu --ignore xorg-server --ignore xf86-input-evdev --ignore xf86-video-vesa

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grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

pacman -Syu --ignore xorg-server --ignore xf86-input-evdev --ignore xf86-video-vesa

That is not enough - you need a much longer IgnorePkg list. Also, in cases like these I would always run pacman -Syuw first, and then check if I'm ok with the downloaded packages to be installed.
For example with the setup above you will install a large number of libx* packages. All of these have recently been rebuilt against the new xorg-server. I wouldn't want any of them in my system when running the old one.

Here is my list:

IgnorePkg = xextproto                                                                              
IgnorePkg = fixesproto                                                                             
IgnorePkg = inputproto                                                                             
IgnorePkg = libdrm                                                                                 
IgnorePkg = libx11                                                                                 
IgnorePkg = libxext                                                                                
IgnorePkg = libxxf86vm
IgnorePkg = libxfixes
IgnorePkg = libxdamage
IgnorePkg = libdmx
IgnorePkg = libxt
IgnorePkg = libxmu
IgnorePkg = libxpm
IgnorePkg = libxaw
IgnorePkg = libxcomposite
IgnorePkg = libxdmcp
IgnorePkg = libxfont
IgnorePkg = libxfontcache
IgnorePkg = renderproto
IgnorePkg = libxrender
IgnorePkg = libxft
IgnorePkg = libxi
IgnorePkg = libxinerama
IgnorePkg = libxkbfile
IgnorePkg = libxtst
IgnorePkg = libxv
IgnorePkg = libxvmc
IgnorePkg = libxxf86dga
IgnorePkg = libxxf86misc
IgnorePkg = shared-mime-info
IgnorePkg = xf86-input-evdev
IgnorePkg = xf86-input-keyboard
IgnorePkg = xf86-input-mouse
IgnorePkg = xf86-video-vesa
IgnorePkg = xf86-video-intel
IgnorePkg = xorg-apps
IgnorePkg = xorg-font-utils
IgnorePkg = xorg-server-utils
IgnorePkg = xorg-utils
IgnorePkg = xorg-xkb-utils
IgnorePkg = libgl
IgnorePkg = intel-dri
IgnorePkg = mesa
IgnorePkg = xorg-server
IgnorePkg = xterm

Last edited by grey (2009-11-06 15:13:06)

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MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Xorg-server conflicts with xf86-video-intel-legacy

What graphics card do you have? My laptop has 855GM and I also had problems with the new xorg server in that X refused to start and the laptop froze. Initially, I downgraded to 1.6 and set all the relevant packages on hold. Then I found a thread here in the forum which basically said, that the problem could be solved by configuring kernel mode setting. I followed the wiki article on KMS for Intel cards and once this run well, I upgraded to the new xorg packages. Everything went well and X runs without problems.