XFree86 ack...

crossmr · #1 7th February 2006, 05:41 AM

So I was working on installing the dri drivers and I needed to install xfree86, and when I did this last time on my ohter install, everything was good. This time however, I had to get it from xfree86.org and install manually. I seem to have completely done something. Instead of my rather nice normal xwindows session on reboot I get my fedora login, but get some funky uhhh something.. a weird window labelled xsm and a console.. which I have to place manually. help?

markkuk · #2 7th February 2006, 02:45 PM

Fedora doesn't use XFree86, it uses the X.org version of the X Window System. You broke your system by installing incompatible X code, now you must remove all the XFree86 garbage you installed and re-install the standard xorg-x11 RPM packages.

crossmr · #3 7th February 2006, 03:03 PM

Yeah, luckily I kept a back up partition which I did just a few days ago. So I booted to that and mounted the old partition and just copied it over, everything is happy again

I think what I need to do is actually update X.org which was the step that seemed to be failing when trying to build the various part of the DRI drivers.

jult · #4 3rd March 2006, 11:32 AM

What videocard are you doing this for?

crossmr · #5 3rd March 2006, 07:54 PM

uhm.. i915. Thanks for replying, but yeah this was almost a month ago, problem was long solved. I Restored from my backup partition and set up xorg 6.9 manually.