Re: Switching to X.org

[tony <innocentson@bellsouth.net>]

Robert Vangel wrote:
> Thomas Adam wrote:
>
> > Is this *really* such a good idea?  They might be packaged by Debian
> > maintainers, but despite so many claims to the contrary, Ubuntu isn't
> > Debian.  And so in that way, it could be that the Xorg packages depend on
> > other libraries of different names, of different versions, etc., that
> > could well cause conflict.
>
>  From Ubuntu Hoary (development release)
>
> ---
> $ apt-cache show xserver-xorg
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
> Installed-Size: 15208
> Maintainer: Ubuntu X Maintainers <ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: xorg
> Version: 6.8.2-2
> Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt, xserver-xfree86
> Provides: xserver, xserver-xfree86
> Depends: xserver-common (>= 6.8.2-2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcc1 
> (>= 1:4.0), libxau6, libxdmcp6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), debconf (>= 0.5) | 
> debconf-2.0
> Recommends: discover1, mdetect, xresprobe (>= 0.4.13), laptop-detect
> Suggests: libglide2 (>> 2001.01.26)
> Conflicts: libxfont-xtt, xserver-xfree86
> [...more...]
>
> $ apt-cache show xorg-common
> Package: xorg-common
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
> Installed-Size: 1204
> Maintainer: Ubuntu X Maintainers <ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Architecture: all
> Source: xorg
> Version: 6.8.2-2
> Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-9), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xmanpages (<< 
> 3.3.4), xstd, xserver-common (<< 4.0), xfree86-common (<< 6.8.0)
> Provides: xfree86-common
> Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.9), debianutils (>= 1.13)
> Suggests: x-window-system-core | x-window-system
> Conflicts: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), task-x-window-system-core, 
> task-x-window-system, xfree86-common (<< 6.8.0)
> ---
>
> Any help?
I did these steps with SimplyMepis 3.3. all worked well

1)Add this entry to /etc/apt/sources.list
  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
2)Comment out all other entries in sources.list
3)apt-get update
4)Using Synaptic search xorg
5)Mark xorg-common and xserver-xorg
6)Click Apply
7)as su type rm /etc/X11/X
8)as su type ln -s /usr/bin/X11/Xorg /etc/X11/X
9)reboot!

The font rendering is alot better - not tried it with nVidia or ATI yet. 
(There is an ATI driver in the list for xorg)

OK, add this to the end of your /etc/apt/preferences file

Package: *
Pin: release o=ubuntu,a=restricted
Pin-Priority: 799