Daevid Vincent wrote:

>>>I run a pretty stable system. I do however run ~x86 for KDE 
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>>and Gnome.
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>>>Something changed recently in an "emerge -Davu world" or 
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>>"system" that
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>>>causes X to not start anymore?
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>>If you are not doing the script updates, then you are not 
>>running a stable system.  Please
>>do all the script updates, then reboot your system.
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>Well, I do run the etc-update stuff, however I do it from X-windows and
>using 'meld' to graphically see the diffs. So I have a bit of a catch-22
>here.
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>Can you tell me how I can remotely run 'meld' / 'etc-update' on my
>notebook's X-windows off of the server? Then I can apply the other
>etc-updates. Can this even be done, since I can't get X to start on the
>server?
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>>>	[0] -1	0	0x2a400000 - 0x2a7fffff (0x400000) MX[B]
>>>(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset 
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>>(0x0185) rev 193, Mem @
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>>Seems the driver you are running doesn't know which chip is 
>>on the Gfx card.
>>Perhaps you should add ~x86 to nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx.
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>I have been using the nvidia stable emerge drivers and I haven't upgraded
>the kernel AFAIK.
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>I guess I'll try to re-emerge the nvidia drivers. The last ~x86 version of
>them really hosed up X good, so I decided on this box, to run the stable
>ones. 
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Hi,
Quite easy, just edit "/etc/etc-update.conf" before running "etc-update".
Change "diff-command=diff -uN %file1 %file2" and "using_editor=0". Later 
could run it in text-mode.
Or use "dispatch-conf, it makes a backup of the updated files in 
/etc/config-archive. Check the diffs afterwards.
When X starts again restore your settings.
HTH. Rumen