On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:55:35PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > The motivation for attempting the upgrade is a missing "sis_drv.so" file > in the 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 xserver-xorg package. If anyone can explain why > this was omitted from the Alpha package, I might feel better about the > upgrade pain I'm now contemplating. In particular, if someone knows > that a SiS 6326 8MB PCI card won't work in a PWS 433au, please let me > know immediately so I won't waste my time trying to make it work. > Summary: there's no clean way to get from Xorg 6.9 to 7.0 on Alpha. > The somewhat longer explanation is as follows: > x11-common_7.0.20 can't be installed because xserver-xorg depends on > xserver-common, which conflicts with x11-common. > xserver-xorg_7.0.20 can't be installed because of a pre-dependency on > x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3). > After examining the problem from several angles, it appears the least > risky place to apply force is the xserver-xorg_7.0.20 package using the > "dpkg --force-depends -i" crowbar. > Comments and/or better ideas would be most welcome. Using apt (aptitude dist-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade) gives you automatic handling of this upgrade path by passing all the necessary options to dpkg for auto-deconfiguring dependencies. BTW, all the evidence I have so far suggests xorg 7.0 is completely broken on alpha; I haven't had time to dig into it enough yet to file a bug report though. In your case, I guess it doesn't hurt to upgrade if your video already doesn't work, I just would suggest not expecting too many miracles from 7.0 just yet. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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