Re: Xorg upgrade with closed drivers
On 16 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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.
>
I was a bit excessive here, after spending two days getting the thing to
work. Thanks to various kind people here who have made useful
suggestions I did get it running again and I suppose it was a learning
experience, but quite a tough one.
One thing to notice after you've installed and configured xorg; if it
doesn't like your $HOME/.xinitrc it won't start. It just silently
refuses and sulks.
Anthony
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