[NBLUG/talk] How to undo a yum update - xorg-x11/FC4 update Warning!

[Dave Sisley]

Dave Sisley wrote:
<I'm assuming no one really wants to re-read my original post>

I'm replying to my own post with an update, or more specifically, a 
reading list:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?s=17674fb543d98ce17de91603650ad847&t=78667
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-September/msg00077.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168844
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Update:_xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix

I've only just scanned these pages, but the gist is that the there is an 
xorg package that will screw up X on machines running on i810 &/or i915 
graphics chipsets.

Upgrade with caution!  The above links make it sound as though there is 
a 'work around' for the problem, which is the fault of the way rpm works 
and the way the upgrade script was written for one of the xorg packages.

As I said, I haven't read these docs all the way through, but I will.  I 
invite anyone else who is interested (and might understand them more 
than me) to look them over and maybe post some concise advice/instructions.

More later!

-dave.