Broken X11 After Mandriva Upgrade

[Colin Guthrie]

- gw1500se wrote:
>  > If anyone knows when the below problem was fixed (e.g. in what version)
>  > that would be useful as I can then do a backport for you on 2008.0.
>  >
> 
> Just for the record, neither vesa nor vga work either.

Hmm, sounds like something more fundamental is wrong then. I'd imagine 
your upgrades have perhaps not gone overly smoothly :s

Perhaps you can supply your full xorg.log (a link to a pastebin would be 
nicer than attaching).

>  >
>  > Failing a known fix for the problem above, you can also try installing
>  > the -i180 rpm from 2007.1 I think that should still work and not cause
>  > this problem due ot the fact it was still on the 1.7.x series IIRC.
> 
> I found this package on the CD from 2007.0:
> 
> x11-driver-video-i810-1.6.5-2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm

As I said above, I'd go for the 2007.1 version:
x11-driver-video-i810-1.7.4-22mdv2007.1.i586.rpm

You can donwload this from here:
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.1/i586/media/main/release/x11-driver-video-i810-1.7.4-22mdv2007.1.i586.rpm


>  > You may have to download the RPM mandually and install with --oldpackage
>  > argument to rpm.
>  >
> 
> I have never tried to back level a version until now. When I try to 
> install version 1.6.5-2 (using 'urpmi'), even using --oldpackage, it 
> fails. I get 3 errors refering to "conflicts with a file in package ..." 
> where the referenced package is the newer version of the driver, 2.1.1-4 
> and the files are /usr/lib/I810XvMC.so.1.0.0, /usr/lib/I810XvMC.la and 
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so. Do I need to uninstall the 
> newer package first or did I do something else wrong?

You may have to remove the currently installed package first yes.

You can do:
rpm -e --nodeps x11-driver-video-intel
rpm -Uvh x11-driver-video-i810-1.7.4-22mdv2007.1.i586.rpm

I wouldn't normally recommend doing this kind of thing but if things 
really are not working for you then this could help.

Col



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