Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:58:16 +0200, Sander Marechal wrote: > >> I tried installing the 2.4.0 driver from experimental, but I can't make >> it work. It wants to upgrade my xserver-xorg-core and when it tries to do >> that, apt wants to remove a bucketload of xorg packages. >> > Which ones, specifically?
marvin:/home/sander# apt-get -t experimental install xserver-xorg-video-intel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4.99.905) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages marvin:/home/sander# apt-get -t experimental install xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core: Depends: xserver-xorg but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages marvin:/home/sander# apt-get -t experimental install xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon Suggested packages: libglide3 gsynaptics ksynaptics qsynaptics The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following packages will be upgraded: libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon 13 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 37 to remove and 138 not upgraded. Need to get 17.5MB of archives. After this operation, 11.2MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. marvin:/home/sander# >> Any idea when driver 2.4.0 and xserver-xorg-core 1.4.999 (or 1.5) will >> get into unstable or testing? >> > After lenny is released. You mean that this bug won't be fixed in Lenny? A bug that causes instability, loss of work and requires daily reboots because X dies? I'd say that this bug be marked RC. -- Sander Marechal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
