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Samuel Donham wrote: > Does anyone use FC3 and have you recently updated the xorg packages? > I have three computers (HP, Dell, IBM) all with different graphics cards, > and this weekend I updated them all with the usual "yum update." > > The only updates that were available were xorg. Now every computer > reboots when loading gdm (I think that's what failed?). I've checked > /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log but have found absolutely > nothing to indicate a problem. SELinux has also been disabled (it's been > a problem in the past). > Has anyone else stumbled on this as well? Hours of research have turned > up nothing. I've read that disabling dri and freetype might work, but no > luck. Have you found a fix? If not, I would highly recommend NOT > updating the Xorg packages for FC3. The update today might solve your problem: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fedora Core 3 Update: xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.45.1 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:28:29 -0400 From: Kristian Kristensen <krh at redhat.com> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com To: fedora-announce-list at redhat.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-000 2005-09-20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : xorg-x11 Version : 6.8.2 Release : 1.FC3.45.1 Summary : The basic fonts, programs and docs for an X workstation. Description : X.org X11 is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low level functionality which full fledged graphical user interfaces (GUIs) such as GNOME and KDE are designed upon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Previous xorg-x11 update introduced a regression which prevented the X server from starting up on all Intel chipsets. This update fixes the regression. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mon Sep 19 2005 Kristian H??gsberg <krh at redhat.com> 6.8.2-1.FC3.45.1 - Fix broken byteswapping in the pci config patch (#168717). ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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