apt-get upgrade broke X

2001-09-20 Thread Andrew Dixon
Hi All, last night I "#apt-get upgrade"d my system and this morning X was broken. I tracked the problem down to my new set up not liking the "1600x1200" mode in my "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4". The other modes work fine. I'm using: XFree86 4.1 Matrox G450 card with mga_drv.o and mga_h

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Ray Percival
Noticed I forgot to mention the other bit of advice. You might just give it a few hours (all my machines are at work so I have to wait to go home and fix my home box) and then do a apt-get dist-upgrade again. I'm sure the developers are fixing this even as we speak. BTW thanks for the list of p

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Ray Percival
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed them? Thanks much. -- Or

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might > > be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably > > more of a pain than fixing X). What sort o

Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Rob VanFleet
I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you having? I noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one needs, so you need to apt-ge

Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!

2001-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been tracking the upgrades in Woody for about 2 months using apt-get without problems, but today it tried to upgrade X and it's broken it so that X won't work at all. Question: how can I start again and reinstall everything from potato? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian