[ltp] FC4 on 770z TP (fixed)

[Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 23:13 -0700, M. Leo Cooper wrote:

[White screen on 770Z]

> Fixed!
> 
> What I did was the following.
> 
> 1) Copy over /etc/X11/xorg.conf from a working FC3 installation.
> 
> 2) Revert to xorg-X11-6.8.1
>    From FC3 disk 1: xorg-X11-libs
>    From FC3 disk 1: xorg-X11-xfs
>    From FC3 disk 2: xorg-X11-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
>       rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps ...
> 
> 
> And, I even got sound working now -- same tweaks as for FC3.

The problem appears to be that some libraries were miscompiled due to
the new GCC that's in FC4.  Here's the bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242

Comment #193 is worth reading.

Note sure if using "force" will cause you some problems later with yum,
but if it works ... hey.

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