I recently upgraded to Mandriva to 2007 Free. In the process, something
happened that broke X11. I have tried everything I can thing of but no joy.
It has been very difficult to get any diagnostics because when I try to
startx, the console goes black and neither keyboard nor mouse can do
anything
I seemingly successfully upgraded to Mandriva Free 2008.0. The upgrade went
relatively uneventfully but still no luck with X11. This version did do a
better job of recognizing my hardware but to no avail. Here is the output
from 'startx' now:
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.
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> gmane wrote:
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> Have you installed all the updates for Mandriva 2008.0? It's quite a
> long time since I looked at that distro as it's still over a year old
> (2009.0 has been out for some months and is well worth the up
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> - gmane wrote:
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> Actually this is wrong. We didn't split out the intel drivers back out
> at that point it seems. I guess it was only did that later.
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> I'm trying to remember if there is was a problem with 2008.0 or not. It
> was
Thanks. I'm afraid I have a problem even doing the uninstall. Could this be the
crux of all my trouble?
rpmdb: Page 105: bad prev_pgno 0 on overflow page (should be 106)
rpmdb: Page 105: overflow item incomplete
rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed
erro
I had to rebuild the RPM database since I got an error trying the uninstall.
Then when I did the uninstall it said that driver was not installed. So I
proceeded to install the suggested version. The install seemed to work fine.
Unfortunately, nothing has changed. When I 'startx', I get the foll
Thanks for that information. I assumed (yes, I know what that does) that
because there were errors that it was not running. I have had so much trouble
with this I never bothered to try it. However this is the most progress I've
made. I now can start X11 and it brings up the KDE desktop. Unfortu
I am having a problem with my Microsoft PS/2 optical wheel mouse when I switch
between machines with a KVM switch. Specifically, my Mandriva machine no longer
recognizes a mouse is attached (Windows does not have a problem with
switching). Some research has come up with a suggestion that the mo
Hi Peter,
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Peter Hutterer wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:34:50PM -0500, - gw1500se wrote:
I am having a problem with my Microsoft PS/2 optical wheel mouse when I
switch between machines with a KVM switch. Specifically, my Mandriva
Hi Peter,
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Peter Hutterer wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:44:36PM -0500, - gw1500se wrote:
all this is logs from the graphics card. is there anything related to input
devices?
Apparently not. Those are the entries that were added to
soon to get to 2009.
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
Hi, gw1500se
This is mandriva 2008.0 ? you could try mandriva 2009.0 which have even
more stabe x server 1.4.1 .
and newer drives .
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