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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 124

xorg-server 1.7

I upgraded my computers yesterday - yes, I am not quite smart, because I believed in Arch stability in last months too much, so I upgrade all my computers at the same time. I was complete disaster. I am writing from my laptop - there are artifacts everywhere, but I don't have anything better.

But in this topic only about new xorg. After upgrade to 1.7:
- on PC mouse (standard USB) don't work. Cursor run to the left top corner. I can move it, but it return there immediately.
- on laptop (Radeon 7500, free driver) I have artifacts (I hope you understand me, I mean random colour dotes all over the screen).

I didn't check my PC in work and my sister's PC - and I am afraid to do it.

I have looked over the Internet for description of changes in xorg-server 1.7 - perhaps I need to modify my xorg.confs - but I founded nothing. Generally people have that much strange problems with this version of xorg, so I am surprised that you moved it from testing.

PS. On the server I have ssh dead, cups dead, sqlite3 dead, dnsmasq dead, lighttpd dead - and I am sure there is more. But this is different topic.

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: xorg-server 1.7

I have looked over the Internet for description of changes in xorg-server 1.7

Then you must have found the large number of threads on exactly this topic right here in the forums. Did none of suggestions made in these threads work for you?

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MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: xorg-server 1.7

With respect to your ATI card(s?) you could try to disable kernel mode setting. It solved the problems of some people (including myself and I also use the free driver). There is a nice wiki article in the setup guide for ATI cards.
If you have Intel cards, it may help to enable kernel mode setting. This solved all of my problems with the new release on my laptop.
If nothing helps, you could downgrade xorg to the previous version. I did that initially before I tried KMS on my laptop and it worked fine.

dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 124

Re: xorg-server 1.7

Sorry, my mistake. There was news on archlinux.org, I don't now how I miss it. I disabled KMS and Laptop works fine.

EDIT:

Now about a mouse. People has problems similar too my, but it is about synapsis (laptop touchpad). I had USB Mouse.

My xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

I found similar topic: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83918.

So now I think you can close that one.

Last edited by dext (2009-11-06 23:01:18)