On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a lot of workarounds and > patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes easier to understand, as > even its maintainer has no idea what is happening anymore. When > upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these file conflicts on most > systems: > > error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files) > xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in > filesystem > xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem > > It's safe and advised to overwrite these files. The symlinks were > previously created from post_install by the xorg-server and nvidia-utils > packages. It is advised to install xorg-server first by using "pacman > -Sf xorg-server", after which you can upgrade the rest of your system. > > This release of xorg-server requires a rebuild of all video and input > drivers. Older drivers will fail to load with an ABI mismatch. Drivers > in our repositories will receive an update to match the xorg-server ABI. > > Nvidia has updated their latest drivers with support for this version of > xorg-server. AMD does not support xorg-server-1.6 yet in their Catalyst > drivers. AMD users are advised to switch to the xf86-video-ati or > xf86-video-radeonhd drivers instead, or keep any X.Org related updates > on hold via IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. This can be done by putting > xorg-server in IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. All other updates should have > conflicts set, so it will be clear which additional packages should be > added to the IgnorePkg list on your system. Note that there will be no > support for older versions of xorg-server when this version moves to > extra. > > I'm having problems with the intel drivers and OpenGL. With OpenGL sceensavers, I don't really know how to describe it but I can guess what's on the screen but it's garbled. With some OpenGL games, I get a black screen. I get the following message on the terminal: get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 I also get that message when running glxgears which works fine. My video card: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Ask if you need more informations. Eric
