ilia_kr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Yesterday i updated my media with urpmi, and then after rebooting, the screen went wrong again. I checked the xorg.conf & found that it became what it was before i applied the changes. Is this normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Can't say I've ever had this happen to me. Normally the xorg.conf remains the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Maybe yes... did you upgrade with the x-server running? Do you have any "xorg.conf.old" in the /etc/X11 folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Maybe yes... did you upgrade with the x-server running? yes Do you have any "xorg.conf.old" in the /etc/X11 folder? yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 So, when upgrading you got some new xorg packages, and most likely your old configuration is saved in that .old file. To be safe you should never upgrade the xserver with X running, or kde modules with kde running, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 So, when upgrading you got some new xorg packages, and most likely your old configuration is saved in that .old file.To be safe you should never upgrade the xserver with X running, or kde modules with kde running, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 I do every time and it is a simple matter of reinstalling the video driver during next boot up. It's no big deal or complicated. Why make it more complicated than necessary??. To install without X running means doing a cli install of rpms while in init 3 Mode. OK if you are a computer expert but the overwhemingly rest of us or not. It is all well and good to give an extensive set of cli instructions to someone who knows what it all means. Cheers. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 (edited) OK if you are a computer expert but the overwhemingly rest of us or not. It is all well and good to give an extensive set of cli instructions to someone who knows what it all means. Cheers. John But it does not really need any expertise at all! - Open a root console, type in "telinit 3" and login as root. - smart update - smart upgrade - telinit 5 That is all (you may have to type a few more things if using urpmi instead of smart). Or, in my beloved Arch Linux: - telinit 3 - pacman -Syu - telinit 5 How difficult is that? The only danger in sight is that it's unlikely to break your system, so it can make life boring! Edited February 21, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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