Jan Brons wrote: > I am wondering if the Xorg 7.0 update problems are solved. I am using > Sid AMD64 and just want to do a apt-update but are mainly waiting for > most of the Xorg problems are solved. If I do an update I see for > example that xserver-common 6.9 xfree86-common and xprint are going > to be removed. Can't find this to be an safe option! I am no Xorg > expert, so can anyone give me a clue? >
I updated one system today and it was kind of messy, but everything worked out eventually. I had to do 'apt-get -f install' and 'dpkg --configure -a' a few times because of missing or unconfigurable packages, but in the end 'apt-get dist-upgrade' succeeded and pulled in what it needed. I had a foreign .deb package of Opera installed, as well as Xnest from main, and those packages left files in /usr/X11R6/bin; some package during the upgrade insisted that that directory had to be empty, so I had to purge those packages and start the dist-upgrade again. I moved /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way, and then did 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg xserver-xorg core' to write a new configuration. On this system I use the 'nv' driver and the configuration generated by debconf worked flawlessly. I had to do 'apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base xfs' as others have noted, although Xorg did start without errors before I'd done that (xterm and xfontsel were crashing beforehand). I'd say that this is a good time to update if you've been waiting. cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
