Need Help Updating Slack 10 with Swaret
 

Hi there,

It's good to be posting here again. Since last summer, I started my career as a teacher at a GREAT private school. Me and my wife are really blessed to be working at the same school.

In any event, I recently did a "swaret --upgrade" to Slack-Current on my laptop. The upgrade process went well, however when I rebooted, X windows no longer worked. My laptop has an ATI Rage Pro video card and I have always used the generic ATI driver with that system. In a recent post to this forum I read that x.org version 6.8.1 does not like ATI video cards. So, I am thinking that when my system installed x11 6.8.1 during the upgrade it messed with my system. I have since put a fresh install of Slack 10 on my system and updated KDE to 3.3.1 manually (downloaded from KDE website).

Here is my question. Can I upgrade my system to Slack-current with Swaret AND use the version of x.org that came with my original installation of Slack 10? I know that swaret allows me to choose which packages to install. Do I just say no to all of the packages that say x.org 6.8.1??

This :newbie: needs a little help!

THANKS!! :)

There in an option in swaret.conf to exculde packages you don't wish to upgrade.

edit; right answer on the wrong place... :)

egag

I guess my real question is, if I manually skip the installation of ALL of the xorg6.8.1 files during the swaret upgrade, will that get the job done? Will having an older version of xorg conflict with other Slack-Current programs/packages?

Slightly off topic: I have yet to setup my laptop or my wife's laptop (both running Slack 10) where the floppy drives work properly. All I want to do is be able to mount, unmount and use my 1.44MB floppy drive as any user on those systems. For some reason, everytime I think I have it setup right it works weird.

I can mount any 1.44MB floppy (as any user), however when I drag (using Konquer)....say a an OpenOffice writer file called "Geo-B1-Roster1.sxw" from a folder on my hard drive to the floppy disk, I get a weird error message. The file is copied, BUT the name has been truncated to 8 characters, all of which are lower case. I have this same problem when I mount my Sony camera and acess the memory stick. For some reason both vfat devices don't work quite right. :confused:

Need help...

:) What?

What egag was saying is to change "keyboard" to "kbd" in the xorg.conf file located in /etc. That caused some problems with X starting up. It happend to me a while back also and I did the change and that fixed the problem I was having. Yes, just run swaret and say no when it asks to upgrade xorg, Why would you want to do that though? :)

So changing the keyboard to "kbd" might be enough to fix the xorg 6.8.1 problem? Hmmm.

Question: Suppose I use swaret and update everything INCLUDING xorg. If I try the keyboard fix and I still have problems, how do I revert back to a previous version of xorg???

Any ideas on how I can fix my vfat floppy and Memory Stick problem?? (read above)

ok first....(i did this before)

go to the slackware website and dl all the x 6.7.0 packages...

here is a direct link: X packages

then use the comand line tool for upgradepkg for each of the packages you dl, for example:

upgradepkg x-6.7.0-i486-4.tgz

if that doesn't work use the oldpackage%newpackage syntax (though the above worked for me just fine):

upgradepkg x-6.8.1-i486-2.tgz%x-6.7.0-i486-4.tgz

restart x and your ready to roll... goodluck

**edit** changing keyboard to kbd will get x up and running again, but fglrx doesn't work in 6.8.1 So no graphic accelleration unless you rollback: I have learned to stay away from upgrading x and alsa when using swaret the hard way.

You should check out /var/log/Xorg.0.log before anything. That may tell you why X isn't working.

After updating xorg files, I always run xorgconfig as root, making a backup of xorg.conf first. But to do this, you need to know what video card you have, and what horizontal and vertical frequency ranges your monitor allows. Alternatively, if you have an xorg.conf file that was working well under Slackware 10, replacing all occurrences of 'keyboard' with 'kbd' may be all you need to do in the xorg.conf file in this case.