[SOLVED] Updating Xorg screwed up my screen-resolution.

NeoXP · 2009-10-31 21:50:37

After doing pacman -Syu earlier this evening, my screen-resolution was screwed up. One of the packages that was updated by pacman -Syu was X to 1.7.1-1 and all of its depencies.

I downgraded xorg (and its dependencies) to 1.6.3.901-1 and after that everything is working fine again.

I'm trying to figure out why the update failed, but to be honest I don't know where to look for clues. The only thing I can come up with is that maybe it would be better to update X without X running.

Before I try this solution I need some feedback on this. So if you could please give your comments/advise towards the following issues:

1. Is it better to update X without X running?
2. Where would I have to look for clues to find out why the update of X failed?

Thxs.

Last edited by NeoXP (2009-11-01 21:39:13)

MindTooth · 2009-10-31 22:53:22

Tried to re-config your config file?

Birger

NeoXP · 2009-11-01 08:46:57

MindTooth wrote:

Tried to re-config your config file?
Birger

Tried it and it didn't solve my problem.

MadTux · 2009-11-01 09:15:53

NeoXP wrote:

After doing pacman -Syu earlier this evening, my screen-resolution was screwed up. One of the packages that was updated by pacman -Syu was X to 1.7.1-1 and all of its depencies.
I downgraded xorg (and its dependencies) to 1.6.3.901-1 and after that everything is working fine again.
I'm trying to figure out why the update failed, but to be honest I don't know where to look for clues. The only thing I can come up with is that maybe it would be better to update X without X running.
Before I try this solution I need some feedback on this. So if you could please give your comments/advise towards the following issues:
1. Is it better to update X without X running?
2. Where would I have to look for clues to find out why the update of X failed?
Thxs.

I have a similiar problem except that my X hang the whole computer. I have an Intel card and maybe thats the reason for the hang. To answer 1., I did my upgrade without X running, so that doesn't prevent bad things from happening. I downgraded to the previous version, as you did, and now everything is working again.
With respect to 2., I looked into Xorg log and found nothing relevant to this problem.

kurt · 2009-11-01 10:29:13

Not sure this is pertinent to your problem but the xorg upgrade also screwed my resolution. It was 1680x1050 but after the upgrade the maximum that any of the GUI tools would let me set it to was 1280x1024 which resulted in a very squashed screen. (Note: I don't have a xorg.conf)

As part of the update it said I no longer needed xf86-video-intel and was it OK to remove. I said yes.
After the update it stated that intel-dri was no longer needed so I removed this as well.

(I have a Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller)

Once I put them back my resolution is back to normal.

Last edited by kurt (2009-11-01 10:30:16)

NeoXP · 2009-11-01 11:34:02

@MadTux: Already did an update without X running, same result.

@Kurt: I do have a xorg.conf and I have an integrated ATI GPU. I have xf86-video-ati and all its dependencies installed (xf86-video-ati gets updated along with Xorg).

@ All:

Something else came up to me. To take advantage of KMS early I followed the directions in our ATI wiki, I added "intel_agp" and "radeon" to my mkinitcpio.conf and regenerated my initcpio. Could this cause a problem?

Last edited by NeoXP (2009-11-01 11:37:27)

NeoXP · 2009-11-01 19:42:13

Update, regenerating initcpio after updating X didn't help. For now I'm out of ideas, anyone?

riivo · 2009-11-01 20:30:48

Try to disable KMS through grub/lilo.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Disable_KMS

NeoXP · 2009-11-01 21:38:46

riivo wrote:

Try to disable KMS through grub/lilo.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Disable_KMS

KMS is indeed what is causing the problem. Now the next step is to get KMS working again . I'll fiddle around.

For now, thanks to riivo this case is closed.

riivo · 2009-11-02 07:52:51

Many of us are having problems with the new xorg-server package. So we'll just have to wait for an update.

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#1 2009-10-31 21:50:37

[SOLVED] Updating Xorg screwed up my screen-resolution.

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