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playdayz

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 12

Upgrade broke X

Just upgraded today; it looks like xorg 7.4 and xserver 1.5.  X no longer works.  Computer freezes with immovable cursor in middle of screen and CTRL-Alt-BS no longer works as soon as X starts.  Nothing works, must reset and restart.  This is a Thinkpad T22 with savage.  I have tried hwd -xa, and xorgconifg, and X -configure, and none of them gives me a workable X.  I have also tried the vesa driver as well as savage, to no avail.  I have commented out dri and glx (which have sometimes given problems) but no help there either.  I have tried gnome, xfce, and blackbox--no difference.  I am out of ideas.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.  Thanks.

playdayz

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 12

Re: Upgrade broke X

I got it rolled back with this from a message on the next page.

Do get your system running again do:
Code:

tail -n 50 /var/log/pacman.log

Look at which xorg packages have been undated in the recent upgrade. Then, find the previous versions of the packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and install them manually with
Code:

pacman -U <pkgname>

I just did pacman -R xorg-server and xf86-video-savage and vesa.  And then reinstalled the old ones with pacman -U xorg-server-1.4..... 

How nasty.  No upgrading for a while I guess.

Last edited by playdayz (2008-12-04 23:40:38)

Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: Upgrade broke X

Just upgraded today; it looks like xorg 7.4 and xserver 1.5.  X no longer works.  Computer freezes with immovable cursor in middle of screen and CTRL-Alt-BS no longer works as soon as X starts.

The new xorg has hotplugging enabled by default, which means your mouse/keyboard are enabled quite differently. See xorg input hotplugging.
With hotplugging enabled, X will purge any devices setup in xorg.conf that are using the kbd and mouse driver.

Essentially you have two choices:
A) Use xf86-input-evdev driver and enable HAL to use mouse/keyboard drivers
B) Turn off hotplugging

Bob

playdayz

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 12

Re: Upgrade broke X

Hrod beraht, thanks, I got lazy, that hotputplugging stuff doesn't apply to me ;-( Wrong.  Thanks for taking the time to put me right, btw, I just turned it off, pd

Last edited by playdayz (2008-12-05 01:29:26)

Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: Upgrade broke X

I just turned it off too. I don't even have the HAL daemon running on my system

Bob