troubles after upgrading to xorg-6.8.1

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Wed Jan 19 15:45:36 PST 2005


Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Thanks for the well-functioning ports, first of all :-)
> 
> I have two troubles, however.
> 
> First, something, that was probably discussed on your list already. KDE can 
> not come up unless /tmp/.ICE-unix is owned by root. Which, I suppose, is the 
> case if one uses xdm/kdm/gdm, but not in the case of `startx'. My workaround 
> is to create, chmod, and chown the directory from /etc/rc.local

Well known, fix is in the works (will require a base-system update).

I have a question for you however - does switching to text consoles work for 
you? I have one radeon card (9200) with dual outputs running dualhead, and 
switching vtys doesn't work anymore (the switch never completes and switching 
back blindly hangs the machine).

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