Broken X11 After Mandriva Upgrade

[- gw1500se]

Thanks for the reply. Please see embedded comments below.

> gmane wrote:
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> Have you installed all the updates for Mandriva 2008.0? It's quite a 
> long time since I looked at that distro as it's still over a year old 
> (2009.0 has been out for some months and is well worth the upgrade!)

There's the rub. I did all the updates I thought were appropriate with the 2008 upgrade. However, without X11, I don't know how to check from command line. I tried to run the upgrade for 2009 but it said it would not upgrade and I needed a clean install. With all the problems I have trying to reconstitute my server, that is the last thing I want to do. I'm hoping, if I get enough 2008 updates applied, it will let me do the upgrade. Otherwise I have to stay with 2008. I simply don't have the time to rebuild all my services. Last time I did that (10.1 to 2007) it took 3 weeks to get a working server again and many messages to various forums.

> 
> I think I remember fixing a similar bug (well "packaging" the fix for, 
> not actually "fixing"!), but I can't remember the details off hand.
> 
> If you cannot get it to work, there should be a x11-driver-video-i810 
> package what you can install and you can replace the "intel" line with 
> "i810" in your xorg.conf. This is an older version of the driver but it 
> should work fine for you.
> 

That doesn't work either. Here is the 'startx' output using 'i810':

xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.13648


X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Linux_2.6.24.5-server-2mnb Mandriva
Current Operating System: Linux dap002 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 04:07:04 CEST 2007 i686
Build Date: 07 August 2008
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 29 19:09:13 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Using vt 7
(II) Module already built-in
(II) Module already built-in
(EE) intel(0): detecting sil164
(EE) intel(0): Unable to read from DVOI2C_E Slave 112.
(EE) intel(0): Unable to read from DVOI2C_E Slave 236.
(EE) intel(0): ivch: Unable to read register 0x00 from DVOI2C_B:04.
(EE) intel(0): Unable to read from DVOI2C_E Slave 112.
(EE) intel(0): tfp410 not detected got VID FFFFFFFF: from DVOI2C_E Slave 112.
(II) Module already built-in
xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  Cannot register with ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
SetClientVersion: 0 9
SetGrabKeysState - disabled

Interestingly the X client does not crash as it used to. However, it is obvious from the output above that something is still wrong. How did this get so screwed up since it was working before the 2007 spring update?


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