Re: SOLVED: Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-06-20 12:31 +0200, Chris Lale wrote:
> 
>> The diverted files were "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so" and
>> "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so". I removed them with dpkg-divert
>> and upgraded xserver-xorg-core successfully. My X Window System is restored!
>>
>> nvidia-glx non-free (NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver) exists in Sarge and Etch,
>> (NVIDIA binary Xorg driver) in Sid, but not in Lenny. I don't know how to find
>> out whether it used to be in Lenny. My Lenny was an upgrade from Etch - perhaps
>> it's remembering it from there?
> 
> The diversion was added after Etch, according to
> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/changelog.Debian.gz:
> 
> ,----
> | nvidia-graphics-drivers (100.14.19-1) unstable; urgency=low
> | 
> |   * new upstream.
> |   * Xorg 7.3 compatible (closes: #420177 )
> |   * divert libwfb.so and libGLcore.so (closes: #442846, #441400)
> |   * change maintainer to packaging team.
> |   * change x11-common depends to 1:7.3+2
> |   * change provides to xserver-xorg-video-2
> |   * remove use of update-modules (closes: #435650)
> | 
> |  -- Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:16:06 -0700
> `----
> 
> At that time nvidia-glx had already been removed from Lenny.
> The diversion has been removed in the meantime, though:
> 
> ,----
> | nvidia-graphics-drivers (169.12-3) unstable; urgency=low
> | 
> |   * Make sure wfb diversion is removed. (closes: #482995)
> | 
> |  -- Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org>  Mon, 26 May 2008 09:27:40 -0700
> | 
> | nvidia-graphics-drivers (169.12-2) unstable; urgency=low
> | 
> |   * Add initial linux-modules-nonfree-2.6 intergration, 2.6.24 only
> |   * create storage directories for old patches and don't include in binary
> |     packages.
> |   * Remove wfb diversion and don't install nvidia's copy.
> |   * Patch for 2.6.25 support
> |   * Patch to compile on xen enabled kernels (closes: #476504, #481485)
> | 
> |  -- Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org>  Sat, 24 May 2008 19:57:18 -0700
> `----
> 
> Which version did you have installed last?

I don't know. I removed it some time ago.
> 
>> I'll report this as a bug in xserver-xorg-core.
> 
> Please don't.  This is a bug in nvidia-glx and already fixed.
> 
I'm too keen - already done. It's already been closed, though, for this reason.

Thanks again.

-- 
Chris.