Re: New xorg update gives horrible display - long

On 04/22/2010 08:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2010 18:12:06 you wrote: >> On 04/22/2010 08:01 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >>> On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:30:18 you wrote: >>>> On 04/22/2010 05:58 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >>>>> Reply to All / Reply to List >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday 22 April 2010 15:35:07 Rares Aioanei wrote: >>>>>> [snip] Methinks you should file a bug including the screenshot and >>>>>> the output of lspci -vv, since I don'te personally see nothing >>>>>> amiss with the Xorg log. >>>>> >>>>> I'll do that and post the number here. >>>>> >>>>>> And as a solution, yes, you may try to downgrade the Intel driver. >>>>> >>>>> Just : xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-1.fc13.i686 and intel-gpu- >>>>> tools-2.11.0-1.fc13.i686, or the xorg updates as well? >>>>> >>>>> Anne >>>> >>>> You may want to play safe and avoid any problems with library >>>> dependencies, so >>>> you should also include xorg-* . >>> >>> Hmm - sorry to be a pain, but I need to get this right. Asking for the >>> downgrade, it says it will also remove >>> >>> xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-drv-fpit xorg-x11-drv-synaptics >>> xorg-x11-drv- vmmouse and xorg-x11-drv-wacom >>> >>> Will these also automatically get replaced? >>> >>> Anne >> >> You are not a pain, we're all here to help each other. OTOH, you can >> write these down and if they won't be >> replaced, you can install them explicitly. > > I seem to be in a vicious circle here. > > Installing: > xorg-x11-drivers i686 7.3-14.fc13 fedora 7.8 k > xorg-x11-drv-fpit i686 1.3.0-10.fc13 updates-testing 14 k > xorg-x11-drv-synaptics i686 1.2.2-2.fc13 updates-testing 61 k > xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse i686 12.6.9-2.fc13 updates-testing 17 k > xorg-x11-drv-wacom i686 0.10.5-2.fc13 updates-testing 113 k > > Updating for dependencies: > xorg-x11-server-Xorg i686 1.8.0-7.fc13 updates-testing 1.3 M > xorg-x11-server-common i686 1.8.0-7.fc13 updates-testing 60 k > > Back where I started. > > Downgrading: > xorg-x11-server-Xorg i686 1.8.0-4.fc13 fedora 1.3 M > xorg-x11-server-common i686 1.8.0-4.fc13 fedora 59 k > > Removing for dependencies: > xorg-x11-drivers i686 7.3-14.fc13 @fedora 0.0 > xorg-x11-drv-fpit i686 1.3.0-10.fc13 @updates-testing 14 k > xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse i686 12.6.9-2.fc13 @updates-testing 19 k > xorg-x11-drv-wacom i686 0.10.5-2.fc13 @updates-testing 310 k > > so now I have to xorg-x11-drivers - and I daren't log out ;-) I know > it's possible to specify a version, so if you can tell me the version > before 7.3-14 I'll try to install that > > Anne I'm not at a Fedora machine at the moment, but ls-ing your rpm database (provided you haven't yum cleaned recently) should show you the versions you need. Best of luck. :-)