Re: Easiest & Safest way to downgrade udev 0.89-1(etch) to 0.56-3(sarge) (including all that depends on it) WAS Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound?
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ben@ekran.orgB. Bogart escreveu:
| Hello all, again.
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| Sorry that I keep posting to my own messages.
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| I could deal with no Sound for a month, but I really need them damn video
| capture to work. I guess I could try to manually add the device with mknod
| and then not reboot, but that is indeed a hack.
|
| forcing the downgrade of udev will force the downgrade of hal which will
| will force the downgrade of gnome-volume-manager which will force the
| downgrade of gnome-desktop-environment. This is all ok if it works
| properly. (My problems with gnome before were stickies always opening in
| the wrong position & size, and more anoying nautalis crashing periodically
| leaving me with no main menu, no desktop etc..)
|
| What is the most painless way (using apt I hope) to downgrade my
| gnome-desktop-environment and all it depends on back to sarge versions?
| (most importantly udev itself)
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| (manually dpkg --force-downgrade for each dependancy sounds very painful)
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| Thanks all.
|
| .b.
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|
No need for that.
I'll have the answer here: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/downgrade.html
Though it refers to woody, it also applies for sarge, etch, etc. I
recently done that from etch to sarge without any probs.
Greetings
Carlos
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