Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

[Tim Wood <tlwood@iinet.net.au>]

On 07 May 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 07 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote:
>   
> > > My thanks for all the comments.
> > > 
> > > I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the 
> > > Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that.
> > > 
> > > In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months old, ACPI works on 
> > > both the 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 kernels in the 686 and AMD64 versions.
> > > 
> > > Guess I'm just going to have to wait for it to be sorted out. I'm not 
> > > sure I have the skills to go back to the previous X version.
> > > 
> > > Tim
> > > 
> >     
>
> As I have an ATI Mobile X1400 in my Thinkpad Z61M there is no option to
> use a different graphics card. Reverting to the previous version of Xorg
> was perfectly simple, however. I just removed xserver-xorg, pointed
> /etc/apt/sources.list at testing and reinstalled. I've now placed
> xserver-xorg-core on hold.
Great idea. I went back to 2.6.18 and did as you suggested. I still had 
the 2.6.18 driver deb in the archive and was able to use dpkg to install 
it. Working fine back at 1680*1050.

Thank you very much for that suggestion.

One point though. How will I know when it is safe to upgrade?

Tim