Re: Problems with XFree 4.0.2 when upgrading from stable to testing
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:33:31AM -0700, Chris Stork wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to Debian, so forgive me if I miss the obvious. (I tried to
> read as much of the relevant docs as possible, but maybe I missed
> something...)
>
i should have written the same thing :)
> When upgrading from potato to woody (added the testing lines to
> sources.list; apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade) the new X 4.0
> packages are held back (how does that work anyway? Any documentation
> about the _rationale_ for that?). I thought I just have to reboot (like
> with SuSE), but then my machine hung on entry to runlevel 2. It seems that
> my rc scripts weren't upgraded yet. Ok, so then I did dpkg --configure
> --pending. That configured some more packages but the new X packages were
> still kept on hold -- so I installed them manually. (Why do I have to do
> that? Shouldn't apt be able to figure that out?)
>
i encounter the same difficulties
> I guess I am missing something fundamental here. I assumed that Debian
> tries to convert my 3.3.6 config files to 4.0.2-7 ones or at least guide the
> user thru the configuration using debconfig. Is that true? If not should I
> just configure the system as if I got it directely from xfree.org?
>
> Any comments/clarifications appreciated!
I used xf86config to configure XFREE4, everything is ok now except the
keyboard, i can't use AltCtrl (except in the console mode) and the
system doesn't seem to understand my locales file (again except in the
console mode). Good luck
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