When I was trying X.org on Sarge, I used official packages from Etch. May be this is the solution?! On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:54:59AM -0400, B Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried upgrading to X.org 6.9 from backports.org so that > I could get Xvideo working with the fglrx ATI drivers for > my x1400 Radeon card. I can't get Xvideo working with > the vesa drivers either (I would prefer open source > drivers if I could but without xvideo and yv12 overlays > xine can hardly play DVDs). > > I followed the instructions on how to use apt pinning to > do this, as prescribed by backports.org. However when > I try to do apt-get upgrade, apt tries to upgrade about > 135 packages including things like exim4. I see no > reason why this sould be, and would like to stay with > debian stable for everything else (except X11/X.org). > > Is there any way to just upgrade the x11 packages to > x.org ? Is it safe and advisable ? > > regards > b thomas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Yours faithfully, Pavel Klemenkov.
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