[Gllug] Matrox P650, FC5, Gnome screwed

[Ken Smith]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
>> Any Gnome experts among us or is it quicker to fdisk and start 
>> again.....
>
> Completely reinstalling a machine because one minor userspace 
> component isn't working as well as you want seems a little excessive.  
> Assuming the Matrox driver really has trashed X, then all you need to 
> do is purge X and reinstall that.
Yes that was a bit OTT, a Windows approach I admit, I was annoyed that 
it had screwed the system up and it was late.... I have all the up to 
date install files on line here so a re-install would only take 25 mins 
max. Non rpm, yum/apt type installers are a real PITA 'cause you don't 
know where they spray their files and 'adjustments'.

I think I was dealing with three problems. The first was a broken link 
that thwarted the Matrox installer, that is connected with the SMP 
kernel I'm running - that was easily fixed. The second is that the 
Matrox installer has a bug in its script, where it backs up the existing 
libGL.so.1.2 and libglx.so, so that it can never really successfully do 
an uninstall. The third is that the Gnome's config files got borked 
somehow in the process of starting X with the new mga.ko driver file. 
That was the heart of the window manager problem.

Many thanks to Daniel whose late night suggestions really helped. In the 
freshness of the next day I've got it sorted with the new driver and 
WITHOUT a re-install.

Take care

Ken



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