Re: Xorg

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote:
> Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling 
> equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to come 
> in. What is safe to upgrade at this point or should on wait on this.
> 
> Please CC off-list since I still do not get digests!

Definitely don't! It worked the first time but next day everything went
wrong. I can now get X to load but it won't read my xinitrc file and
icewm won't load so it's useless - total disaster.

In desperation I installed testing on a spare partition but that didn't
help either because whenever I tried to install any package I got a
message about e2fsprogs (can't remember the details) which was blocking
all installs. Google (on a different machine, still working) produced a
lot of stuff about this but no solutions that I could understand.

Currently I'm feeling pretty despondent about things. Perhaps I shall
have to install Stable to get a working X.

Anthony

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