Hello Adam, thank you very much for your reply.
Am Montag, 12. November 2007 09:35:18 schrieben Sie: > Every time the a major package is updated, pacman, kernel or xorg, > often it requires more than just reboot. I have found that if I read > the news feed on the main page, in the announcements, on this mailing > list or even in the changelog, that I am able to quickly resolve most > problems. For example, Changing to the new sata-like links for all my > PATA drives was a little weird at first, but after just one flawed > reboot in grub (forgot to set the parameters), I'm now running on the > latest and greatest instead of clinging to the old stuff that I > believe will eventually leave the kernel. These kernel issues like > other people have said, just happen as a result of the kernel updates. you are totaly right - i have taken a few steps to make my life easier: - i have the server cloned and check first the clone for updates - i read this list - i check the announcements and - i check the forum and - i read what pacman says to me ;-) so, till now this works very good - before that i was a little naive ;-) and you are right: after some digging here and there i found out, that 99,99% of my problems resulted from upstream issues. > > The tp43p issue: at the moment i have unfortunately not the time to check > > this deeper - i will try to do that at sunday. > > I recently had a problem on my T41. What I did to solve it was to > rename my xorg.conf to some dummy filename, and start X (which worked > fine). After putting the xorg.conf back, I found there were some > lines in my xorg that were no good, namely the lines about > AGPFastWrite and the AGP speed which was set to 8x. I'm sorry I'm not > at my laptop so I don't have the specifics I removed, but if you'd > like to see my xorg.conf I can send it, though I am using the radeon > driver. there is (again an upstream problem!) an issue with the fglrx driver at the moment: the actual driver release doesent work for FireGL devices and i have one in the thinkpad, so its a problem from ati. there is a rumour that ati releases this month an update that will solve the problem with FireGL graphics cards, till then i stick with the older xserver and firegl modul. i cant use the ati / radeon opensource driver, because i am not able to setup it properly in an dualhead environment, there seem to be some bugs in the driver, i dont know, but as i am using the thinkpad as my main workstation and i am really busy at the moment, i cant try it out. if you have a working dualhead configuration with the radeon/ati driver, it would be great for me to see your xorg.conf Thank you very much Dirk _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
