The joys of rawhide returning to form

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:54 -0800, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> For the last couple of weeks as rawhide settled into FC5 I had a
> completely working system. Now that the freeze has been lifted for a
> couple of days I yum updated this morning.

I'm seeing all of the same things.

> Printing broke.
> 
> There was a cups update. I think I saw a scriptlet fail. There appears
> to be no default printer. Using the control panel to remove the
> current (USB) printer and remake a new one doesn't help. Test printing
> fails.
> 
> X broke
> 
> There was an X server update. I have an ATI Radeon R300 so am involved
> in the DRI fray. In previous versions commenting out the load of the
> DRI module worked but in the new version DRI looks like it is still
> attempted and I get the black screen of death. Reverted to the X
> server rpm off the FC5 cd.

In my case I had the EXA acceleration enabled on X, and that appeared
not to be loading.  I was able to get X working again by reconfiguring.

> ipw2200 broke
> 
> There was a kernel upgrade (2074) and now the driver won't load.
> Booted the 2064 kernel which continues to work.
> 
> So that was no X, no wireless and no printing. Eeeks.

Thank goodness I have a wired jack near to where I use my laptop at
home...

Jeff

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