xorg-x11 update may have broken my system

[Partho Protim Paul]

download the bz2 tarball and compile from scratch. and at the end of 
compilation run 
#xorgcfg -textmode
cheers!!
p.s. btw xorg 7.x will be out soon, check it out @ #xorg @ freenode

On 9/21/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Alex Janssen wrote:
> 
> > I ran "yum update xorg*" as soon as I got home tonight and the update
> > fixed the problem. I new these guys were working on it hard. They
> > wanted me to be able to show off linux to my friends without
> > embarrassment.
> >
> > Thanks Xorg.
> >
> > This is hard on my nerves, though.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> Both Kristian and Mike seemed to resolve this issue quickly (and others
> behnd the scene, if any). The explanation of the problem in the bug
> report presented was informative to understand what exactly went wrong
> and what actions are being taken to make X to not have mysterious
> lockups that happen for no known reason and with no easy way to diagnose
> what exactly is going wrong. I believe the patch related to pci control
> governed by the kernel and not directly addressed by the X server was
> where X broke. I guess support for a wider range of Intel chipsets was
> part of the upgrade also. Does anyone have later model Intel graphics
> that now works?
> Also, out of curiousity, those wth Intel 810 or 815, was X broken with
> the previous security release? My card worked, I am just trying to
> figure out if it was my resolution settings (1280x1024 at 24) or if the
> 810/815 cards were not broken for others either. (1024x768 at 16 for 
> example).
> 
> For the person having the Quake tournament, good luck now since X should
> be working again.
> 
> At least now your friends will be able to see how Fedora, or Linux
> distros in general are supposed to work.
> 
> Jim
> 
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