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jwork123nl

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 19

What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

Just a summary, to possibly help others here.

As reported here by others, I encountered difficulties after upgrading xorg-server to 1.7.1.

My problems were slow effects in kde (eg slow dragging of windows) and blue stripes appearing on the screen.

My situation:
- I disabled mode switching by the kernel command line option radeon.modeset=0
- I do not use an xorg.conf
- I have an old AGP Radeon RV280 card

I did the following:

1. change the extra server in /etc/pacman.conf to Server=ftp://atviras.lt/archmirror/extra/os/i686/

2. downgrade xorg-server and its depencencies (did not help)
[2009-11-02 11:10] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.3.0-1 -> 2.2.5-1)
[2009-11-02 11:12] upgraded xorg-server (1.7.1-1 -> 1.6.3.901-1)
[2009-11-02 11:12] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.4.0-1 -> 1.3.2-2)
[2009-11-02 11:12] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.5.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2)
[2009-11-02 11:12] upgraded xf86-video-ati (6.12.99.git20091014-1 -> 6.12.4-1)
[2009-11-02 11:12] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.2.1-1 -> 2.2.0-1)

3. downgrade mesa and its dependencies (did not help)
[2009-11-02 11:17] upgraded mesa (7.6-2 -> 7.5.1-2)
[2009-11-02 11:25] upgraded libgl (7.6-2 -> 7.5.1-2)

4. Downgrade ati-dri and its dependencies (this solved my problem)
[2009-11-02 11:25] upgraded libgl (7.6-2 -> 7.5.1-2)
[2009-11-02 11:25] upgraded ati-dri (7.6-2 -> 7.5.1-2)
[2009-11-02 11:25] upgraded mga-dri (7.6-2 -> 7.5.1-2)

5. Ignored above-mentioned packages with IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf

6. Changed the server for the extra repository back to my old one in /etc/pacman.conf

Last edited by jwork123nl (2009-11-02 11:08:31)

jiyunatori

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 54

Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

I've had a lot of troubles too. In the end I had to downgrade, and didn't take the time to figure out which package is to blame - because I'm getting complete system freezes and don't want to hard reboot my machine more than a few times.

Anyway, I'm writing this because i'm using the xf86-video-intel driver. Your lead points to a problem with the ATI driver, but it looks like it comes from somewhere else ...

nirvanix

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From: Saskatoon

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 193

Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

I had X windows resetting itself frequently. I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver. I've downgraded the driver and xorg server and now I'm ok. This seems to be a slip-up by the xorg community?

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jwork123nl

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 19

Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

Yes, the trouble seems to be in the ATI driver.
And I think it does not help that my Radeon car uses the AGP bus, instead of PCI-E.
I guess nobody tests AGP anymore :-(
We can only wait for an update

Last edited by jwork123nl (2009-11-02 20:04:44)

pichulines

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From: Spain

Registered: 2009-06-26

Posts: 22

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Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

I have experienced also problems with a nvidia card (GE9300 using nv driver) at home computer and an ati card (Radeon X3o0 using radeon driver).

In the first case the X server gets freezed, returning a black and unresponsive screen. In the ati case, I got problems with xrandr as I have two monitors plugged, using DVI and VGA outputs. It doesn't detect correctly the outputs.

The only way I found was to downgrade this packages to the previous version:

xf86-input-evdev
xf86-input-keyboard
xf86-input-mouse
xf86-video-nv / xf86-video-ati (depends on the card)
xf86-video-vesa
xorg-server

This only was useful to get the system working, but it doesn't solve the problem.

eric

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From: under heaven

Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 118

Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

Similar problems and possible solution: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82461

jwork123nl

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Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 19

Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

Thanks Eric, now I know when a solution might be forthcoming.
I hope that a patched mesa will not be necessary with the new kernel?
(to get rid of the graphical glitches I mean)

regnak90

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 11

Re: What I did to solve my problems with xserver-org upgrade to 1.7.1

I'm having X windows resetting itself frequently and a downgrade like in the first post didn't solve the problem

EDIT: Fixed with the xorg-server update

Last edited by regnak90 (2009-11-08 15:17:30)