xorg upgrade warning
 

At the time of the previous xorg upgrade I reported here a problem with chrome crashing kde. This has recurred with the latest xorg upgrade and the fix is the same, reinstalling the nvidia drivers.

This will always happen since the nVidia drivers replace files that are part of the xorg-server package.

Indeed and idiots like me will be caught out every time. It's a curious feeling when you are desperately googling for a solution and find it in your own posting!

Would you consider a warning with the mailing list email next time a xorg update is posted?

I did not have to reinstall the Nvidia driver. All I had to do after upgradepkg xorg-server-1.12.4-i486-2.txz is point one link back to the file installed by Nvidia:
I am fairly sure that for my setup at least there are no other conflicts between xorg-server and the Nvidia driver. (There are also some between the mesa* package and Nvidia.)

Sadly, this problem with Xfce terminal border missing is still there. Instead of reverting to 1.12.3 again, I am going to try using a different desktop background color.

I love this.

arubin --

This one bit me the last time I updated xorg and again this time as well.

I panicked both times because having no X, I couldn't google an answer.

When I figured out what was going on, I knew the xorg update would bite me again ( and again and again ... ).

I wrote a note to myself in a file: /etc/X11/KJH-WARNING-for-xorg-Updates.txt

This time I only panicked for 2-minutes rather than 2-hours :)

-- kjh

This update also bit me in the ... like it did the last time xorg was updated. Second time around I knew it had something to do with the nvidia files so it didn't take as long as it did to fix. Is there a need to rebuild the two nvidia packages? I believe just reinstalling them is sufficient.

Lynx is your friend, or should be!

I have been in that situation myself (albeit for a different issue). :D

I simply installed the upgrade xorg files and later had to reboot (for reasons nothing to do with xorg or Nvidia). Once rebooted, I didn't/haven't notice anything different. How do I know if my system is still using the nvidia drivers (from nvidia btw) or not?

Thanks for that dimm0k.

I backed up the old packages before running the SlackBuild scripts and reran `upgradepkg --reinstall ...` with the old SBo Packages.

All works as before with the old Packages.

-- kjh

should give you an answer.

alt.os.linux.slackware is always around. You can access it right from the console with alpine(1), slrn(1), nn(1), tin(1), which are all part of a Slackware full install. In case of emergency you can visit the ##slackware channel on chat.freenode.net with irssi(1), which is part of Slackware, too.

So you're not completely lost without a Google and without a Chrome. :-)

I've pretty much made it a habit of uninstalling the Nvidia drivers before upgrading ANYTHING do do with X, Mesa, or the kernel.

Thanks, TobiSGD! That did the trick and it shows I am still using the nvidia drivers,

so I don't know why others are having troubles with theirs after the xorg upgrade the other day.

Performance, just because it says all is good doesn't mean everything renders properly. I just installed AMD Drivers for my good old Radeon HD4650 and all hell has broken loose.

Now things are really interesting...troubleshooting is in my immediate future : )

Caught out again.