Re: Bug#345454: xserver-xorg: Upgrade to 6.9.0 broke vt switching
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:34:33PM -0500, Paul Check wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> >The fact that pointing /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the Xorg seems to have fixed
> >your problem could mean either:
> >
> > * /etc/X11/X doesn't point to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg on your system.
> > If so, you should fix this, as the next upgrade of
> > xserver-common will restore the Xwrapper binary.
> > * The Xwrapper is broken.
> >
> Problem resolved:
>
> I did change /usr/X11R6/bin/X to point to Xorg, but perhaps there is
> another change that occurred that resulted in the fix, for example
> installing the nvidia-glx package. I was having some kind of problem
> related to nvidia-glx, and that problem resolved, so perhaps the vt
> switching problem was related.
>
> I see that in fact /etc/X11/X does now point to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg:
>
> ls -l /etc/X11/X:
>
> /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/Xorg
>
> and the Xwrapper has been re-installed since the link I put in is not there:
>
> ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X:
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> And, my VT switching is now working. So, problem resolved but I don't
> know why! :)
>
> Regards, Paul
Does anyone know if nvidia-glx has ever messed with this wrapper? I didn't
think it would have to touch this, but I don't really know how deep that
package messes with things.
- David Nusinow
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