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Re: Bug#603469: xserver-xorg-video-ati: screen randomly goes black with no way to bring it back



Hello,

can you please stop top-posting?  (See e.g.
http://idallen.com/topposting.html for some reasoning.)

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:18:00PM +0100, lauren wrote:
> hi and thanks so much for trying to help
>
> i tried what you said but got:
>
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686 : Depends: linux-base (>=  
> 2.6.36-1~experimental.1) but 2.6.32-27 is to be installed
>                                 Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>=  
> 2.6.36) but 2.6.32-27 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
ah, try

	apt-get -t experimental install linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686

> so it isn't installed
>
> also i didn't have a /etc/apt/preferences file so i created it ... is  
> that correct?
yep

Best regards
Uwe

> On 11/15/2010 10:46 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 04:09:24PM +0100, lauren wrote:
>>> i'm sorry but i don't know how to do that kind of upgrade ... will it
>>> break the rest of my system? :(
>> No, it won't.  Just do the following:
>>
>> 	# cat>>  /etc/apt/preferences<<  EOF
>> 	Package: *
>> 	Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental
>> 	Pin-Priority: 102
>> 	EOF
>>
>> 	# echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main">>  /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>> 	# apt-get update
>> 	
>> 	# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.36-trunk-686
>>
>> This should prevent any unwanted upgrades from experimental and still
>> allow you to hand-pick kernels from there.  The installation updates one
>> additional package that should not hurt you.  Other than that running a
>> squeeze with .36 should be fine.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Uwe
>>
>

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