I recently caught the X upgrade in testing and discovered that none of the available drivers would work. I've since fixed that, but it got me wondering what a good way to dowgrade all of X was.
The advice I've found on the list gave methods that were good for downgrading a package, or the whole system, but seem awkward with a whole set of packages (I realize with enough time I could write a script that would get all the package names and do it for me). I tried this in /etc/apt/preferences Explanation: Downgrade to X I can use Package: xserver-xorg-* Pin: release a=etch Pin-Priority: 1200 Package: xorg-* Pin: release a=etch Pin-Priority: 1200 but it didn't seem to work (and the man page doesn't exactly suggest it should). I was using aptitude. Before that I tried selecting the xserver-xorg meta-package and downgrading it, but it didn't take anything else with it (since it probably has a lot of >= requirements, the newer ones make it happy too). I considered removing X, but that poses the same problem of identifying all the packages and the extra problem that it would probably remove most of my packages with it. Any other ideas? Footnote on the X problems. The open-source nvidia driver has never worked for me, and the upgrade broke the closed one. However, the fix at the bottom of Debian bug 420177 worked for me. Thanks to Brice Goglin for drawing it to my attention. The vesa driver sort of worked, but characters in emacs came out as little squares. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
