Re: Xorg upgrade with closed drivers
On 16 Apr 2006, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop
> running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx
> drivers.
>
> Both upgrades failed miserably.
>
> On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following:
>
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> libglu1-xorg-dev (due to efl-all)
> 368 upgraded, 85 newly installed, 32 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
> Need to get 301MB/309MB of archives.
> After unpacking 52.7MB disk space will be freed.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful.
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
> ?]
>
> On the fglrx laptop, it attempts to remove fglrx-driver, but can't find
> a diversion to replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.
>
> Whats the best upgrade path for both of these boxes?
>
> Thanks,
> --b
Don't do it at all. I've now lost X after an upgrade; after 2 days work
it just loads but I can't use it because my window manager won't come up
properly. In desperation I tried to install testing on a spare partition
but that was no good either because it won't install any packages at all
- something about e2fsprogs needing to be removed temporarily.
I'm beginning to think I shall have to go back to stable to get a
working system.
Anthony
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