Latext Xorg Update Kills NV

[Gerry Tool]

Matias Féliciano wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 octobre 2004 à 14:30 -0400, Neil B. Cohen a écrit :
> 
>>I'm having the same problems - but I don't know how to downgrade the 
>>package - can someone point me in the right direction?
>>
>>Based on the email I've seen this afternoon - I think I need to edit out 
>>the 'rhgb' on the boot line.
>>I did that and managed to get a command line login. But now I need to:
>>
>>a) downgrade the xorg-x11 package (just that one? or all of the xorg-x....?)
> 
> 
> Here I do :
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage xorg-x11-6.8.1-8.i386.rpm \
> 	xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-8.i386.rpm \
> 	xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-8.i386.rpm \
> 	xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-8.i386.rpm
> 
> 
>>b) reset the GDM process
>>
> 
> 
> killall gdm-binary
> 
> 
>>How do I do those things? Or should I just wait for the next set of 
>>updates??
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>nbc
>>
>>
>>>Same here with an old ATI Rage IIC.
>>>Back to 6.8.1-8.
>>> 
>>>
>>
> 
Pardon my ignorance, but where would one get the 6.8.1-8 rpms?  All I 
can find on the mirrors now are 6.8.1-10, the faulty one.

Thanks.

Gerry Tool