Warning on New Updates

I would suggest that you people who use swaret or slapt-get to update, read the changelogs very carefully.

Why? (I can't get to the changelogs right now... keeps timing out here at work)

Here is the changelog updated after a swaret --update
/var/swaret/.cache/ChangeLog.txt

Is the warning b/c of the X11 upgrade (the kbd driver) or what? I'm just curious why we are being warned?

I always read the changelogs anyways which is how I know to do a swaret --update/--upgrade anyways

The X issue. Galeon and Epiphany will be broken after upgrade and are to be removed. don't recall what else if anything.

Originally posted by ringwraith The X issue. Galeon and Epiphany will be broken after upgrade and are to be removed. don't recall what else if anything.

Just wait if/when GNOME 2.8 hits and we have hal/dbus to deal with (especially for those still using 2.4 series kernels...) though, GNOME 2.8 may end up being held back for Slackware 10.1...

apart from the Keyboard -> kbd change, I also saw an error about "speedo" whatever that is.

Originally posted by ringwraith The X issue. Galeon and Epiphany will be broken after upgrade and are to be removed. don't recall what else if anything.

It appears that on my computer, EVERYTHING is broken after the upgrade. No matter what window manager I use, windows don't draw correctly and menus are transparent (if they appear at all).

Kent

strange... works fine here...

Originally posted by oxleyk It appears that on my computer, EVERYTHING is broken after the upgrade. No matter what window manager I use, windows don't draw correctly and menus are transparent (if they appear at all). Kent

It's all very strange. At first I thought it was a problem with KDE but then I tried XFCE, Fluxbox, and Blackbox. Window frames are partially missing and when I try to move a window it is resized instead. Terminal windows are transparent (not what I want) and text gets placed on top of other text. Application windows aren't drawn properly, again with transparency and unexpected behavior. Also, when I startx I get lots of multi-colored garbage on the screen but then it clears up.

Could this be an xfconfig issue? With XFree86 there is an auto-configure command, XFree86 -configure, which worked well for me. Is there a similar command in xorg?

Kent

Ohhh... yeah, you're going to have issues using an Xfree86 config with xorg... lots of people say to just copy over the Xfree86 config to xorg.conf but that never worked for me... i ended up having various strange things happening with X. I think the new command is xorgconfig. Probably should copy over your current to a back-up in case you need some of the info from it. Make sure to remove the original when you create a new xorg.conf b/c having both seemed to always cause me problems.

Xfce is broken on my PC after this update. Working on it.

I'v Been Running Xorg 6.8.1 from LinuxPackages.net, seems to work perfectly. i changed keyboard driver to kbd and a few other random things (like xcomposite).

I haven't had a lot of time to work on the problem, but at first glance it might be an issue with my Intel i810 video driver. I discovered that when I compiled kernel 2.6.7 I didn't include this video driver. After I recompiled the kernel with the video driver as a module KDE locked up hard when I logged on. Everything worked up until the most recent update of xorg.

I'll spend some more time on it when I get a chance. Unfortunately, work gets in the way. :-(

Kent

I've been reading posts in FAR-TOO-MANY-PLACES! about problems others are having with X 6.8.1 and it appears that the majority have nothing the do with the keyboard-->kbd change; most of the problems are with screen issues. Now I'm not so sure it is X that is causing the problem. Last night I uninstalled 6.8.1 and reinstalled 6.7.0 and the problems that I've described earlier still happen.

I've been using Slackware for almost a year now and this is the worst problem I've encountered. Is there anything else in the September 19th update that would cause problems with the way objects are drawn on the screen? Are there any logs I could read to find clues?

Kent