[Solved]Can't start xwindow, after upgrade xorg

wd_afei · 2007-09-24 02:54:01

It seems because of the fglrx driver...

Last edited by wd_afei (2007-09-24 04:36:38)

thayer · 2007-09-24 04:09:25

wd_afei, did you by chance upgrade Xorg to 7.3 when you installed the GNOME packages? They are both in testing now and Xorg will definitely not work with the current fglrx driver.

wd_afei · 2007-09-24 04:21:26

thayer.w wrote:

wd_afei, did you by chance upgrade Xorg to 7.3 when you installed the GNOME packages? They are both in testing now and Xorg will definitely not work with the current fglrx driver.

Yes , because of Xorg.I did not notice Xorg upgrade too.

Find some old xorg-server pkg in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and install it,now ok.

Last edited by wd_afei (2007-09-24 04:36:10)

fallen · 2007-09-24 06:28:00

u r luck...i just delete all my old package...and i have to switch to vesa now。。。whats a pity...

javajunky · 2007-09-24 07:14:25

Damn! Just ran into the same wall, did my usual pacman -Syu this morning, to be presented with a terminal session, same reason as you guys 'module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (2)'

Now 'X' takes a -disableabi parameter that allows me to start X up from the console, but I'm too stupid to work out how to get gdm to use that parameter, any ideas?

javajunky · 2007-09-24 07:38:33

Couldn't figure out how to sort out disableabi (probably a good thing really ).
In case anyone else comes this way, you'll probably at a minimum need to do roughly this:
su
cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
pacman -U xorg-server-1.3.0.0-7.pkg.tar.gz
pacman -U xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.1-3.pkg.tar.gz
pacman -U xf86-input-mouse-1.2.1-3.pkg.tar.gz

your versions may differ from mine. this seems to be enough to get things back on track until fglrx is updated (which I believe according to one forum post is due in October?)

fallen · 2007-09-24 10:28:41

for my situation
i did try -ignoreABI parameter for my nvidia driver
yes. i can use my nvidia driver boot into beryl....but the texture is fully crap
now i am using nv driver now...just waiting for nvidia to fix this problem.
I added -ignoreABI in /etc/slim.conf
I forgot how to change the GDM parameters, u may try etc/gdm/custom.conf or etc/gdm/Xsession

thayer · 2007-09-24 14:25:38

A word of advice if I may... If you enable a testing/unstable repository, don't ever do blind updates (e.g. pacman -Syu) unless you're prepared everyday to wipe your hard drive. Hell, I upgraded only libx11 from [testing] and now if I downgrade back to the stable version my desktop is broken.

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fallen · 2007-09-24 18:00:12

lol.....seems that i've been blind for more than 3 years.
take it easy....i never experienced a situation which need to wipe all your date even i do -Syu everyday with testing and unstable enabled...since i think 3 years ago.

thayer · 2007-09-24 19:43:19

It was simply a word of advice, with no animosity behind it. For the record, just because you haven't experienced a catastrophe in 3 years doesn't mean it will never happen. Blind system-wide updates from unstable repositories is definitely playing with fire... it may not require you (an experienced user) to wipe your whole drive, but it can definitely render a system unusable if something goes wrong. I'm simply saying folks shouldn't do it, unless they are prepared for the consequences.

songochain · 2007-09-25 18:07:11

It's safe use testing now?? i did a downgrade yesterday from testing to core (current) but i prefer use testing. Sometimes it's broken but... i can fix it

skysurfer · 2007-09-26 02:15:54

I used Testing and did a pacman -Syu

Now i removed Testing from the repositories list. How can i switch to the old packages?

UnplayedNamer · 2007-09-26 14:26:33

You don't have to remove testing. Just add the xorg-related packages to IngorePkg in pacman.conf (xorg-server, xf86-* ...)
and install the old ones with eg. pacman -S extra/xorg-server.

skysurfer · 2007-09-27 01:32:43

UnplayedNamer wrote:

You don't have to remove testing. Just add the xorg-related packages to IngorePkg in pacman.conf (xorg-server, xf86-* ...)
and install the old ones with eg. pacman -S extra/xorg-server.

I want to remove testing for various reasons.

Now, whenever i run pacman -Syu, i get a list of warnings for packets that are newer from the ones at the repositories. Is there an easier way (than manual) to downgrade all packages? There are a lot packages that need to be downgraded

byte · 2007-09-27 03:55:49

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37833

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[Solved]Can't start xwindow, after upgrade xorg

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