Updating Xorg on FC2

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 2/21/2005 10:52 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:
> >
> >>Has anyone updated Xorg on FC2 and lived to tell about it?
> >>I'm currently running FC2 with
> >>$ rpm -q xorg-x11
> >>xorg-x11-6.7.0-11
> >>and am experiencing occasional X lock-ups (well, technically, X is just
> >>using 99% of the CPU, so it's not "locked up," it's just running really,
> >>really slow).
> >>Nothing in the .xsession-errors or /var/logs/messages files indicates
> >>(to me) what the problem might be, but I'm thinking that an update of X
> >>may magically "fix" things.
> >
> >
> > I did it once with the RPMs from FC3.  It was a bit of a hack job since
> > some of the packages changed names along the way, but it was functional.
> > I'd say you'd be better off just uprading to FC3 though.
> >
>
> Yeah, I'm thinking that, too. There are reasons to update to FC3,
> anyway, if I stay with a fedora-based distro, since support for FC2 will
> be going away before too long. Unfortunately, I just recently got
> everything working on FC2 WRT the different repositories i use (atrpms,
> kde-redhat, dag, and freshrpms) and apt4rpm.

FWIW, i upgraded my last FC2 box to FC3 two days ago, and it was a pain
free experience.  Everything worked perfectly after the upgrade.  Took
about 45 minutes total, too.  My wife was expecting me to be hacking stuff
into place for the entire day, and was giving me dirty looks while the
upgrade was happening.  She was pleasantly surprised when it was done so
fast and she was logged back in and checking email after just an hour of
downtime.

>
> > Perhaps try a different window manager and see if the problem persists?
> >
>
> Perhaps. Problem is, I'd have to use antoher window manager for an
> indeterminate period of time, and I'm really used to KDE...
>
> I guess it could also be the nvidia driver that's installed. Using
> 1.0-6629, which is s'posed to be the latest.

Could be.  You could test that out by falling back to the open source nv
driver.

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