X11 update <solved>

[Windtalker]

I allowed some updates yesterday that included some X11 packages.
After rebooting I found that a good many of the screensavers no longer functioned.
I reinstalled xscreensaver but have the same result.
No big deal and dunno if anything can be done for it but thought whoever takes care of that package might want a heads up.

Regards.

[thenktor]

What Salix version are you using? Did you upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1? There haven't been upgrades in 13.1 to packages of the category "x" (xorg).

[gapan]

Are you using a proprietary graphics driver? If so, try reinstalling it.

There haven't been upgrades in 13.1 to packages of the category "x" (xorg).

Yes, they have.

[thenktor]

Only old intel drivers have been added. Or what else?

[gapan]

Only old intel drivers have been added. Or what else?

Please read the slackware changelogs.

[thenktor]

LOL, I was looking at our changelog

[Windtalker]

13.1 with proprietary Nvidia driver.
The available update was brought to my attention from the auto update notification so I would assume it was a Salix recommendation.
I also used gslapt to see exactly what the updates were and they were X11 updates.
I also had a weather widget installed to the toolbar that is included with XFCE.
I just noticed it isn't working either.
Nothing is show stopping but still I think a heads up is warranted in the event it does turn into something show stopping with others.

[Antid Oto]

Hi Windtalker,
I had the same problem. Basically X server is still running, but support for Nvidia OpenGL mark an error for the new version of X (a symbolic link error between /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so and the custom nvidia libglx.so). You have to update the proprietary driver. First uninstall the nvidia driver with the following command (as root):

nvidia-installer --uninstall

and reinstall the "xorg-server" package:

slapt-get -i --reinstall xorg-server

Then, Download the new version of the driver, install it, and the problem will disappear. Meanwhile you will access the graphical environment if present the file "xorg.conf-vesa" a default in Salix.

[Windtalker]

Evidently you were editing your post when I was reading it.

slapt-get -i --reinstall xorg-server

was

spkg -i --reinstall xorg-server

Which was a new one on me and also didn't work because reinstall is an invalid command and install gave another error.

I had already reinstalled the driver allowing the installer to uninstall the old driver.
That gave me back the screensavers but not the weather widget and had come here to post the results when I saw your post on reinstall the xorg server.
I manually uninstalled the old driver, tried to install the server with the command you had at that time with no success and reinstalled the nvidia driver.
Booted back to a gui to check and now the screensavers and weather widget are both working.
If it ain't broke, I see no reason to fix it until it is.
Thx for the input folks.

Regards.

[Antid Oto]

Sorry, the command to reinstall "xorg-server" was

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slapt-get --reinstall --install xorg-server

However, it seems to reinstall the nvidia driver is enough. Happy ending, hehe Regards