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mr_ed

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-04-13

Posts: 72

Can I NOT upgrade to Xorg 7.1?

Hi,

Former Archer here.

I want to re-install it, but I'd like to install Xorg 7.0, NOT 7.1.  I guess that I have to hurry if I want to install before it moves into -current.

Anyway, there's a driver in Xorg 7.1 that hoses my X server (yes, a bug has been filed, but it hasn't been fixed -- it's only "medium" severity apparently), so I'd like to hold that package back.

Any ideas on how that would affect the overall system?  That wouldn't cause any incompatibilities, would it?

Edit: Whoops.  Could a mod move this over to Workstation User?  TIA

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Can I NOT upgrade to Xorg 7.1?

maybe you can compile the part of x-server hosed with the old x-server stuff? with abs you know.. then you can put that part in pacman.conf on ignore.. Or maybe the best thing would get the X devs to fix it since it's kinda serious that you can't even use the x-server...

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mr_ed

Member

From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-04-13

Posts: 72

Re: Can I NOT upgrade to Xorg 7.1?

Actually.. it's only one driver that would need to be held back.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7967

Any suggestions how I would keep the one driver back?  I haven't used Arch in more than a year, so I'm a little rusty with ABS.  Is there a separate package for ... oh, found it:  xf86-video-tdfx, and it's already at the "broken" version.

So I can use pacman for xorg, and ABS for xf86-video-tdfx, and I should be all right, right?

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Can I NOT upgrade to Xorg 7.1?

You could update your machine and then downgrade the xf86-video-tdfx package like so:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

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mr_ed

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-04-13

Posts: 72

Re: Can I NOT upgrade to Xorg 7.1?

Thanks all.

I noticed that 0.7.2 has the correct driver version.  I'll just install X off of the CD and set that one package in the ignore list.