Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2995 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 November 2007 16:54:53 Matt T. wrote:
> There was indeed an update, a few weeks ago, IIRC even a security update,
> which updated X11, but not the drivers, and stopped X from loading, just
> like described here by the OP. Took me half a day of googling and thinking
> and sweating to find and solve it. Here is what I remember:
>
> First of all this seems to be a problem which appeared only with x86_64,
> not with the 32 bit version.
>
> I had xorg-x11-7.2-whatever and the update installed xorg-x11-7.3-whatever.
> The update should have pulled in the xorg-x11 driver etc modules for 7.3
> too, because the 7.2 driver modules do not work with xorg-x11-7.3 (I think
> that is even mentioned somewhere in the 7.3 sources)
>
> (The 32 bit versions are for whatever reasons still on 7.2, thus this
> problem does not show.)
>
> So after the upgrade I had a mix of 7.3 and 7.2
>
> - xorg-x11-7.3-whatever
> - xorg-x11-server-7.3-whatever
> - xorg-x11-driver-input-7.2-whatever
> - xorg-x11-driver-video-7.2-whatever
> - etc.
>
> and about the same errors as mukul. After upgrading all other xorg-x11
> parts to 7.3 the error disappeared and X came up fine again.
>
> Now I have all on 7.3.x :
>
> - xorg-x11-server-7.3-10
> - xorg-x11-7.3-9
> - xorg-x11-driver-video-7.3-12
> - xorg-x11-driver-input-7.3-8
> etc.

Then may I suggest that you remove factory from your installation sources

These packages were never released for 10.3, but they are in the factory 
repository (which is never a safe thing to use, unless you really know what 
you're doing, and are prepared to do some beta testing for the next version)

Anders

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