[gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

[gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

[W.Kenworthy]

I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding
that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver.  Of course there is nothing
in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots.  Eventually it
takes out the OS and a system reboot is required.

Is anyone else seeing this (in which case I'll bugzilla it, though I
have no info on whats happening) or is it just me?

This also has brought up a *BIG* disadvantage of modularising something
like xorg - when things go wrong, how can you wind it back to a previous
version - impossible?

BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

[leszek]

Le mardi 06 juin 2006 à 12:49 +0800, W.Kenworthy a écrit :
> I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding
> that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver.  Of course there is nothing
> in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots.  Eventually it
> takes out the OS and a system reboot is required.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this (in which case I'll bugzilla it, though I
> have no info on whats happening) or is it just me?
> 
> This also has brought up a *BIG* disadvantage of modularising something
> like xorg - when things go wrong, how can you wind it back to a previous
> version - impossible?
> 
> BillK
> 

do you have a nvidia card and a nvidia driver that you compiled
yourself ?

because i heard 7.1 introduced a ABI change so the drivers aren't
compatible now.

with portage nvidia-kernel block xorg 7.1

i have this in my package.mask:

# nvidia incompatibility
>=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.1
>=x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.1
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-1.2.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga-4.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick-1.1.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.1.1
>=x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.1.2µµ


-Leszek


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Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

[Kurt Guenther]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding
> that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver.  Of course there is nothing
> in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots.  Eventually it
> takes out the OS and a system reboot is required.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this (in which case I'll bugzilla it, though I
> have no info on whats happening) or is it just me?
>
> This also has brought up a *BIG* disadvantage of modularising something
> like xorg - when things go wrong, how can you wind it back to a previous
> version - impossible?
>
> BillK
>
>   

Don't forget to post in the Gentoo forums too.  I had some wierd-isms
with Modular X, but I was able to work through them with some help.

--Kurt

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Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

[JimD]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding
> that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver.  Of course there is nothing
> in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots.  Eventually it
> takes out the OS and a system reboot is required.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this (in which case I'll bugzilla it, though I
> have no info on whats happening) or is it just me?
> 
> This also has brought up a *BIG* disadvantage of modularising something
> like xorg - when things go wrong, how can you wind it back to a previous
> version - impossible?
> 
> BillK

unmerge x11-misc/xscreensaver.

If you use Gnome emerge:
gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver


If you use KDE emerge:
kde-base/kscreensaver

and you can also add:
kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

[W.Kenworthy]

Thanks, this is what I will do.

BillK

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:46 -0400, JimD wrote:
...
> 
> unmerge x11-misc/xscreensaver.
> 
> If you use Gnome emerge:
> gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver
> 

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