Jim Cornette wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
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Download all the xorg related rpms into a local directory and then
run the command below from within this directory where you placed
the rpms.
rpm -Uvh *.rpm --oldpackage
while you are root and preferably you are out of X and in a
terminal. This should replace the new packages with the older
versions. If you find that there are additional programs/libraries
that also need to be rolled back, place these rpms within this
directory and repeat the command above again.
I would *not* advice rpm -e or yum erase for going back in X
versioning.
I have spent the better part of this day trying to understand how to
do this without damaging my system. I learned much, but I was still
far from feeling confident about trying something. Thank you for
these instructions...
One added note regarding this procedure. It might be wise to do an
rpm -qa |grep xorg
To see which rpms that are currently installed on the system. The
reason is that the U means that any package installed or not will be
upgraded/installed. The F (freshen) option did not seem to work for me
when trying to downgrade with --oldpackage option to rpm.
The procedure worked for several that tried this to downgrade xorg-x11
packages when a major failure hit us on testing FC3 to be.
It is safer than removing x packages via rpm -e and does not remove
your desktop managers like yum erase xorg-x11 would do.
Jim
Jim: Just to let you know that this worked perfectly! It would seem that
there is a concatenated series of actions that led to this mess. The
first was the installation of the Radeon driver from ATI. This was
followed by the application of xorg-x11-6.8.2. I've now rolled back the
process by first removing the Radeon/ATI driver, and then by rolling
back xorg. During the removal of the ATI driver, I got a message about a
conflict between that driver and something on my system which I
unfortunately didn't write down. So, my question is, do you think I
should try reinstalling the xorg update now that the system is working
again?
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
