On 07/12/2012 07:47 PM, zxq9 wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 08:03 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, David Crick wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like Mark may have hit the nail on the head
>>> by identifying the ati-driver. I will try on my second
>>> machine here and confirm whether it works for me
>>> as well.
>>
>> 'Fraid not. My three machines all have intel graphics chips
>> and SL62. Two with identical motherboards: one upgraded smoothly the
>> other
>> didn't. The third is a laptop and the upgrade broke it.
>>
> 
> Just helped a guy out in the slforum IRC yesterday with this same
> problem on SL 6.1 (nVidia graphics on his system -- the graphics drivers
> aren't the issue). The resolution was a downgrade.
> 
> The specific problem in the xorg log was that the evdev input module
> couldn't load because of a version mismatch. There may be other
> mismatches, but that was the point xorg gave up.
> 
> Whenever the graphics drivers load first GDM will display but no input
> is possible, if the graphics is scheduled after evdev then x won't give
> you a graphical indication that anything is moving.

xorg driver should have to rebuild with the right xorg packages in the
buildsys repo (it was one of our problems too).

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