'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 27/09/12 13:40 did gyre and gimble: > On 27/09/12 13:31, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> I presume you have the x11-driver-video-intel package installed? > > Would you believe it? It wasn't installed. After the big update I did > the automatic removal of orphans - I wonder if it got caught up in > that, somehow.
Ahh a nice simple answer in the end! I probably should have been more persistant in asking this question initially (I think I did mention it in an earlier mail, but also asked a whole bunch of other stuff in a "get all the debug possible all at once" fit of pseudo efficiency! Kinda backfired a bit! > So - I now have M3 working - with the display problem that I already > knew about, but that's definitely KDE related, as a second user > doesn't see it, so now I can work on that. > > The only remaining question is "how did a working system end up > without a display driver?" Well, it's perhaps this scenario: x11-driver-video was installed initially and it pulled in lots of individual display drivers, including intel. Due to an xorg update, one of the drivers that is required by x11-driver-video had to be removed (due to no longer being supported) which resulted in x11-driver-video also being removed, thus orphaning all the drivers it initially pulled in, including the intel one. It's quite easy to happen really, this is one of the many reasons I never, use the --auto-orphans feature. I use urpmq --not-available to do my tidy ups. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
