Possible to go from 5.5 to 5.4?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Jun 16 20:24:01 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:39:27PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote:
> Tuc wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >     I recently upgraded from 5.4 to 5.5, and now if I leave it in X for a
> >few minutes it ends up locking up, usually when the screen blanks on
> >its own. I wanted to go backwards to see if that behaviour goes away.
> >
> >     I wasn't sure if there was a risk doing this.
> >
> >Thanks, Tuc
> >
> >  
> Have you tried recompiling X? That might help. Take a look at 
> sysutils/portupgrade, if you haven't used that before. I think going 
> backward is unwise, there must be a better way.

Also make sure you recompile any kernel modules you might be using.
The most likely one would be the nvidia driver.

Kris
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