Yay! I have X again. Ok for those also having similar trouble (Hi Steve :) I'm going to try and set down what I did in the hopes that this will help till Vincent can get back to someone :) (_anyone_ :)
I had gone into /var/cache/apt/packages and dpkg -i'd everything xfree86'ish that I had 3.3.5 packages for Unfortunately I didn't have packages for the fonts. So this morning I did an apt-get remove xf86setup (because it was broken without the fonts) Then I did an apt-get upgrade, it upgraded all the x things that I had installed at 3.3.5 but held back on xserver-common (so now I have everything 3.3.6 except that which is still installed at 3.3.5) (oh and I did have to go into /usr/lib/menu/xbase-clients and put some \'s in after each hints="Clocks" line and rerun update-menus during the install of xbase-clients) But I was still missing my fonts so I did an apt-get -d install of each of the font packages (because each one threatened to yank both my xserver-common and my xserver-i128 if I did just a plain install) and then did a dpkg -i on each font package from within /var/cache/apt/archives Now, the reason I'm sharing this with the whole list is that I'm a relative Debian newbie and I'm sure this was a fairly messy way to go about doing all this. If anyone can think of any ways that it would have been easier to do all this or things that I might have to watch out for (besides having to hit 'R' and 'Q' in dselect a lot till the conflicts get worked out a bit more) because of how I did this, please speak up, I'd love to learn :) (and let's face it, in just about any linux isn't it true that the best way to learn is the ' *poke*, kewl :) *poke*, kewl :) *poke*, ... oops?' method? :) -Alice
