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FoPref

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From: Erlangen / Germany

Registered: 2004-03-24

Posts: 96

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Please Help! Xorg7 made my system unusable :(

Hi,

I appreciate your work on getting Xorg 7 to our hands, but it didn't work out well for myself.

I tried to update to Xorg from testing some days ago and got major problems. Therefor I switched back to Xorg 6.8. Now as the latest update gave me back Xorg 7, it got fscked up again. These are my issues:

* I get "locale not supported by Xlib" or "X server has no locale support" messages on nearly every X app I start

* Copy & Paste doesn't work anymore! I can paste from some windows to others, but mostly it:
- just don't work
- kills the source application :-((
aterm says "failed to open input method"

* I can't use kbd anymore, I have to disable it in config to get anything done! If kbd isn't disabled, every key I press leads to as if I would've pressed Ctrl-+ instead (switching screen resolution) :-((
Without kbd, keys like äöü don't work on every application, and I have no _AT_ or PIPE key whatsoever :-((

This renders any usage of X useless in longer terms.
Please, please help me out! :-)

Here are some snippets perhaps helpful:
X server output (startx 2> stuff):
http://fopref.donnergurgler.net/div_priv/x-stderr

my Xorg.0.log:
http://fopref.donnergurgler.net/div_priv/Xorg.0.log

my xorg.conf:
http://fopref.donnergurgler.net/div_priv/xorg.conf
(notice: yes, my keyboard indeed has 102 keys)

my package list:
http://fopref.donnergurgler.net/div_priv/pkglist

I have to notice that while things got updated, several files got lost(?), even if their corresponding packages were installed. Reinstalling them worked.
To make sure my system is clean, I did some shell scripting to have every package explicitely reinstalled... it worked out quite well and really reinstalled every package (a total of 630, about 1 GB) without problems. But it didn't help...

I really would appreciate any help )

Regards,
Johannes

viniosity

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From: New York, NY

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 404

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Re: Please Help! Xorg7 made my system unusable :(

Did you follow the guide that Judd posted when you did your upgrade?
http://www.archlinux.org/blog/2006/01/0 … rade-xorg/

Is it possible you forgot to grab some drivers?

FoPref

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From: Erlangen / Germany

Registered: 2004-03-24

Posts: 96

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Re: Please Help! Xorg7 made my system unusable :(

Thanks for your reply, I did basically the same as in the guide and don't think I missed a package, I double (...) checked that, see also my pkglist if you like, perhaps you find something missing .