On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Upgrading to xorg-server-1.5 went relatively smoothly on 2 laptops, >>>>> but my first attempt on a desktop has been a failure. I get: >>>>> >>>>> Backtrace: >>>>> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 260: dl_open_worker: >>>>> Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args->nsid)->r_state == >>>>> RT_CONSISTENT' failed! >>>>> >>>>> So many packages were upgraded along with xorg-server that I'm not >>>>> sure what to downgrade. Here are the packages that were upgraded at >>>>> the same time. Can anyone suggest any to downgrade? I've already >>>>> downgraded to xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6 and mesa-6.5.2-r1. >>>>> >>>>> << SNIP >> >>>>> >>>>> Should I just mask the installed version of all of these? Thanks for >>>>> any advice. >>>>> >>>>> - Grant >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> This is the list I used: >>>> >>>> # ######## xorg-server masking ######### >>>> >>>> >>>>> =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r4 >>>>> >>>> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 >>>> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 >>>> =x11-proto/printproto-1.0.4 >>>> =x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3 >>>> >>>> >>>> =x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4 >>>> >>>> >>>> That should be a start at least. >>>> >>> >>> Worked perfectly, thank you. >>> >>> - Grant >>> >>> >>> >> >> You happen to have a camera that is ptp? Mine is a Canon and it won't >> work. I'm not sure if it is something during this upgrade or something >> else. If you do have one, see if it works. May want to check your >> printer if it is USB. If you don't have any of that, disregard. >> >> Glad you got it sorted out tho. Having a GUI is nice. >> >> Dale > > I do have a Logitech camera attached but I don't know what ptp is and > I can't get an answer from Google. I also have 2 USB printers > attached. I'm not sure if they worked under xorg-server-1.5 though > since I didn't test them. Very happy to have a GUI again. :)
PTP is Picture Transfer Protocol. Basically a standard protocol for connecting a digital camera (rather than each vendor using their proprietary method). I think if you use gphoto2 it can detect attached cameras and protocols.
