Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: xorg-server upgrade
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:01:34
Message-Id: gotunf$tt$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] xorg-server upgrade by Mark Haney
1 Mark Haney wrote:
2 > Well I upgraded my xorg-server from 1.3.0 to 1.5.3 (masked) in order
3 > to overcome some of the KDE4.2 blocks I was encountering (for some
4 > particular kde4.2 package, which escapes me for the moment.
5 >
6 > So I ungraded, updated my ati driver (I use the radeon driver not one
7 > from ATI) and now my X server won't start. It says 'X server died on
8 > start up' and 'Can't start display on 0:0' or something similar, I'm
9 > writing this on the same box from a different OS. What next? How do I
10 > fix this?
11
12 You might want to read this:
13
14 http://blogs.gentoo.org/remi/2009/02/25/help-needed-to-stabilize-xorg-server-1-5
15
16 The main reason 1.5 wasn't stabilized long ago is probably that
17 upgrading isn't fully automatic. Just follow the links there and read
18 the instructions.