FC3 and Xorg update

[sam at machine15.com (Samuel Donham)]

Yup, that was it.  I updated again and all three machine came back up
without a hitch.



On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:29 -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 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.
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> * Mon Sep 19 2005 Kristian H)B?$)B?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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