Interestingly enough, FedoraNews www.fedoranews.org does not have this xorg-x11-6.7.0-9 update in their list. Wonder why! As an aside, does anyone know what one should do to not have the yum nightly update run over this older version of xorg-x11? Thanks and best wishes! --- "H. Dox" <heterodox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jim Cornette wrote: > > HD wrote: > > >>> > >> I have had a similar but more serious problem after installing the > >> recent updated mentioned in the bug report. But I am not using nVidia > >> drivers. I have a Radeon 7000 card and am using the default drivers > >> that come with FC2. > >> > >> My problem occured yesterday when I tried loging out of KDE. I > >> recieved an error message saying the greeter had crached. After > >> clicking OK on the error dialogue the greeter tried to restart but the > >> error ocurred again. I had to leave for work at that time so I just > >> shut off the computer. When I arrived home from work I could not get > >> anything graphical to work. Not even the graphical boot would start. I > >> them booted into windows and tryed to google for some information on > >> the problem but didn't find anything useful at that time. So, I took > >> drastic measures and completely reinstalled FC2. Though a bit of a > >> pain for other reasons it did solve the problem and all things > >> graphical are working again. I have since updated everything except > >> xorg-x11 stuff and everything continues to work. Of course, I'm now > >> scared to death to updated anything having to do with xorg-x11 :) I > >> hope this information will help sort out the problem. > >> > >> Also, I am still just in the learning stages of getting to know Linux > >> and I realize there was probably a better way of getting FC2 to work > >> again instead of reinstalling it. So, if anyone would like offer > >> suggestions on how I could have handled this in a better way, please > >> do :) > >> > >> Thanks, > >> HD > >> > >> > > > > This might be related to some changes introduced in this latest version > > of X. The problem with the radeon 7200 was experienced by myself and > > another user. The radeon 7200 is even worse than you describe the radeon > > 7000 problem. You get system lockups at boot. > > > > One note: You should probebly file a bug in the xorg-x11 bugtracking > > system. > > > > I filed the below bug for development. It might be helpful for them to > > know that the problem surfaces between version 6.7.0-5 and 6.7.0-9. This > > should narrow down the offending code, which breaks support for the > > radeon 7000 and 7200. > > > > https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1384 > > > > Also, version 6.7.0-5 is still available on the mirror. You might be > > able to upgrade to this and wait for the bug to be squashed which is in > > the -9 version. > > > > Jim > > > > Okay, I was able to find the version 6.7.0-5 on a mirror and have > upgraded to that. All seems to be okay. > > I also filed my very first bug report on this problem. > > https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1529 > > I hope I didn't make too big of a mess of it. I pretty much just said > what I have posted here since it's the only way I could think to relate > the problem. > > Thanks, > HD > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
