Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] xorg-server upgrade
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:51:30
Message-Id: 49B20B46.4070309@ercbroadband.org
1 Well I upgraded my xorg-server from 1.3.0 to 1.5.3 (masked) in order
2 to overcome some of the KDE4.2 blocks I was encountering (for some
3 particular kde4.2 package, which escapes me for the moment.
4
5 So I ungraded, updated my ati driver (I use the radeon driver not one
6 from ATI) and now my X server won't start. It says 'X server died on
7 start up' and 'Can't start display on 0:0' or something similar, I'm
8 writing this on the same box from a different OS. What next? How do I
9 fix this?
10
11 --
12 Mark Haney
13 mhaney@××××××××××××.org
14 Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
15 Kernel: 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 GNU/Linux
16
17 06:48:33 up 11 days, 11:54, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.18, 0.11

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-amd64] Re: xorg-server upgrade Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: xorg-server upgrade Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>