Re: What is the status of Xorg 7.0?
Jan Brons wrote:
> I am wondering if the Xorg 7.0 update problems are solved. I am using
> Sid AMD64 and just want to do a apt-update but are mainly waiting for
> most of the Xorg problems are solved. If I do an update I see for
> example that xserver-common 6.9 xfree86-common and xprint are going
> to be removed. Can't find this to be an safe option! I am no Xorg
> expert, so can anyone give me a clue?
>
I updated one system today and it was kind of messy, but everything
worked out eventually. I had to do 'apt-get -f install' and 'dpkg
--configure -a' a few times because of missing or unconfigurable
packages, but in the end 'apt-get dist-upgrade' succeeded and pulled in
what it needed.
I had a foreign .deb package of Opera installed, as well as Xnest from
main, and those packages left files in /usr/X11R6/bin; some package
during the upgrade insisted that that directory had to be empty, so I
had to purge those packages and start the dist-upgrade again.
I moved /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way, and then did
'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg xserver-xorg core' to write a new
configuration. On this system I use the 'nv' driver and the
configuration generated by debconf worked flawlessly. I had to do
'apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base xfs' as others have noted,
although Xorg did start without errors before I'd done that (xterm and
xfontsel were crashing beforehand).
I'd say that this is a good time to update if you've been waiting.
cmr
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