Re: Xorg

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

>On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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

Figured as much. Yes, Sid is unstable, but posting half done stuff is really 
not "fair" to the Debian community. I am compiling kde myself because of the 
mess that was--maybe I'll go back to debian packages for kde4.