Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-12 Thread Tom Russo
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:26:15AM +, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thursday 08 November 2007, Andrew Falanga said: > > On Nov 8, 2007 12:37 PM, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote:

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 9, 2007 7:00 AM, Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I botched my 6.9-7.2 upgrade too. It's easy to do even if you follow the > instructions. Can't remember what the problem was now, certainly it was > something no one else had, typical. :^) A

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-09 Thread Adam J Richardson
Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will know the answer befor

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 8, 2007 8:03 PM, Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From UPDATING: > > "If you plan on keeping your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf, make sure you > change ModulePath to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules prior to running X." > > Otherwise, just move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X you can the

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Andrew Falanga said: > On Nov 8, 2007 12:37 PM, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the > > > > directions > > > > > (I have the script file as UPDATING

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Nov 8, 2007 12:37 PM, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the > directions > > (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the > > upgrade didn't work as the X

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will

Re: Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:58:39AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: > I then proceeded to the mergebase.sh script, ran that and when I was > satisfied that all was done as expected, I rebooted my machine. Well, > that's when X failed to start. So, how would I go about correcting this > problem? Look

Botched X.org upgrade, need help

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Falanga
Well, at last I think it's botched. I really was following the directions (I have the script file as UPDATING suggests to prove it :-), but the upgrade didn't work as the X server failed to start after I rebooted. I'm hoping some kind person here will know the answer before I e-mail the list ment