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David Crick <[log in to unmask]>
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David Crick <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:30:29 +0100
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.

If you mean on the installed OS, I don't have the logs
from the problematic updated situation, although could
force-install the updates again to get it back into that
state.

If you were referring to logs in the Live disc test, I could
mount the hard drive and copy them onto there to save.

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