On 07/16/2012 08:22 AM, David Crick wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Pat Riehecky<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> On 07/14/2012 05:16 PM, David Crick wrote:
>>> the updated evdev package had already been
>>> installed on the 6.0 machine, and so had not solved
>>> (or, was still part of) the problem of a flickering
>>> monitor and inability to fully load KDE.
>>>
>>> So for me the situation is still unresolved - currently
>>> running on base packages shoe-horned back in.
>>
>> Blast!
>>
>> Any chance for a copy of your xorg logs?
>>
>> I'd also love the output of 'lspci'
> Bearing in mind it's now running on the original 6.0
> xserver packages, will output in that situation be of
> any use to you or not?
>
> I also had the idea of running that system on both
> the 6.2 and 6.0 Live discs, and performing xserver
> updates (and then an xserver restart) on both to
> see what behaviour it exhibited there.

The live disc test could be very informative.

If there is a way of getting the 'old' xorg logs and the 'new' xorg logs 
seeing what is different between them may provide a clue as to what 
isn't running as expected.

Pat

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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer