FC3 and color change

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:32:51PM -0600, Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 22:02, Ed Wilts wrote:
>  
> > > Just a few days ago there was a new xorg-x11 set of packages
> > > released.  Does this coincide with the symptoms you see?
> >
> > That's about right.  I don't consider my FC3 box as production as
> > my server so I wasn't paying as much attention as to when it
> > happened.  I did update my xorg packages on Tuesday night.
> >
> > Do you know which of the xorg packages could be the culprit so I
> > know where to start looking (or backing out?)
> 
> It's a real shot in the dark but as the proud owner of an Intel 815 
> graphics controller I can tell you that my experience with the i810 
> video driver under xorg-x11 has spawned most of the symptoms you 
> can imagine and probably some you can't.  If you're going to try 
> and it back out there's probaly some minimal group of packages that 
> you'll have to apply rpm's "--oldpackage" switch to.  I did it 
> early on in the FC3 testing phase and I don't remember for sure but 
> it seems there was about a half dozen of the xorg-x11* packages 
> that needed to be changed out at once due to dependencies.

I backed out all of the x11-org packages and the kernel and so far the
symptom hasn't changed.  I get a nice white during the grub screen, and
then later in the boot the blue comes into play.

More searching and restoring to see what else has changed...

Thanks again,
        .../Ed

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