New xorg update gives horrible display - long

[Rares Aioanei]

On 04/22/2010 09:47 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 22 April 2010 19:07:57 you wrote:
>    
>> On 04/22/2010 08:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thursday 22 April 2010 18:12:06 you wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On 04/22/2010 08:01 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:30:18 you wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> On 04/22/2010 05:58 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> Reply to All / Reply to List
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday 22 April 2010 15:35:07 Rares Aioanei wrote:
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>> [snip] Methinks you should file a bug including the screenshot and
>>>>>>>> the output of lspci -vv, since I don'te personally see nothing
>>>>>>>> amiss with the Xorg log.
>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>> I'll do that and post the number here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>> And as a solution, yes, you may try to downgrade the Intel driver.
>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>> Just : xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-1.fc13.i686 and  intel-gpu-
>>>>>>> tools-2.11.0-1.fc13.i686, or the xorg updates as well?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anne
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>> You may want to play safe and avoid any problems with library
>>>>>> dependencies, so
>>>>>> you should also include xorg-* .
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Hmm - sorry to be a pain, but I need to get this right.  Asking for the
>>>>> downgrade, it says it will also remove
>>>>>
>>>>> xorg-x11-drivers    xorg-x11-drv-fpit  xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
>>>>> xorg-x11-drv- vmmouse  and  xorg-x11-drv-wacom
>>>>>
>>>>> Will these also automatically get replaced?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>>>            
>>>> You are not a pain, we're all here to help each other. OTOH, you can
>>>> write these down and if they won't be
>>>> replaced, you can install them explicitly.
>>>>          
>>> I seem to be in a vicious circle here.
>>>
>>> Installing:
>>>    xorg-x11-drivers        i686  7.3-14.fc13     fedora           7.8 k
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-fpit       i686  1.3.0-10.fc13   updates-testing   14 k
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-synaptics  i686  1.2.2-2.fc13    updates-testing   61 k
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse    i686  12.6.9-2.fc13   updates-testing   17 k
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-wacom      i686  0.10.5-2.fc13   updates-testing  113 k
>>>
>>> Updating for dependencies:
>>>    xorg-x11-server-Xorg    i686  1.8.0-7.fc13    updates-testing  1.3 M
>>>    xorg-x11-server-common  i686  1.8.0-7.fc13    updates-testing   60 k
>>>
>>> Back where I started.
>>>
>>> Downgrading:
>>>    xorg-x11-server-Xorg    i686  1.8.0-4.fc13   fedora            1.3 M
>>>    xorg-x11-server-common  i686  1.8.0-4.fc13   fedora             59 k
>>>
>>> Removing for dependencies:
>>>    xorg-x11-drivers        i686  7.3-14.fc13    @fedora           0.0
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-fpit       i686  1.3.0-10.fc13  @updates-testing   14 k
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse    i686  12.6.9-2.fc13  @updates-testing   19 k
>>>    xorg-x11-drv-wacom      i686  0.10.5-2.fc13  @updates-testing  310 k
>>>
>>> so now I have to xorg-x11-drivers - and I daren't log out ;-)  I know
>>> it's possible to specify a version, so if you can tell me the version
>>> before 7.3-14 I'll try to install that
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>        
>> I'm not at a Fedora machine at the moment, but ls-ing your rpm database
>> (provided you haven't yum cleaned recently) should
>> show you the versions you need. Best of luck. :-)
>>      
> There was no earlier version in my yum log.  I've searched koji, and there's
> only one F13 version.  The log definitely shows it installed today, so what
> was used for the same job before is anybody's guess.  In the morning I'll
> check the install DVD - see if it's there.  Maybe it used an F12 one before
> today.
>
> I'll leave the laptop on overnight, and try again in the morning.
>
> Anne
>    
Not the log...yum saves installed rpm's a while in a package database. 
Look there.