Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Andreas
Matteo Riva schrieb: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? > > Hi all! I have two questions reg

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Andreas Tepe
Matteo Riva schrieb: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? > > Hi all! I have two questions reg

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Matteo Riva wrote: Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx driver was working fine? What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those versions? 1.7 is a major headache for me: http://bugs.debi

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:25 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com > wrote: > > Thanks! I had looked at the log but I guess I missed the error line > mentioning dri module not being loaded do to an error. > > Installing the firmware-linux package

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-31 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > A good starting point would be to look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for > errors (EE) and warnings (WW). Nowadays X his supposed to handle dri or > compositing alone, but sometime it helps to show him the way. On the > contrary by

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-31 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Matteo Riva wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > >> I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran >> into the same behaviour you described some time ago and fixed it by using EXA >> as acceleration method. The applicable part from my xor

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran > into the same behaviour you described some time ago and fixed it by using EXA > as acceleration method. The applicable part from my xorg.conf is: > > --- snip ---

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:04 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > 2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd > Yes I have tried both drivers and couldn't see any appreciable > difference. I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran into th

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd >  drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I > had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the radeon driver that I do > not experience with the radeonhd driver. Yes I have tried both

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Matteo Riva skrev: Yes I am using the free driver now but the performance is poor. Actually I get a strange behavior: Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > before going the (hard) downgrade way, did you try using the free > "radeon" driver (or whichever is relevant for your card). I "fixed" a > computer crippled by the same problem yesterday, running an Ati > HD2600XT, and t

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Stefaan Himpe wrote: > >> I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or >> am I looking in the wrong place > Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there. > Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc) > before you start to fiddle wi

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Stefaan Himpe
I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or am I looking in the wrong place Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there. Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc) before you start to fiddle with these things. Disclaimer: I'

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Stefaan Himpe wrote: > I also needed to downgrade when the nvidia driver was broken a few weeks > ago. I managed to do so as root using dpkg with the -i option. > Note that apt-get from that moment on complained about some broken packages > on my system (until I d

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Stefaan Himpe
I also needed to downgrade when the nvidia driver was broken a few weeks ago. I managed to do so as root using dpkg with the -i option. Note that apt-get from that moment on complained about some broken packages on my system (until I did a dist-upgrade when the nvidia driver was fixed). For do

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 January 2010 09:51:02 Matteo Riva wrote: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? Packag