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Re: Downgrading Xorg



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On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote:
> Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the
> unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this
> as well.
> 
> Works fine, well in fact, except that if i try to resize a VM in
> VirtualBox it mangles my display, both builtin and external (asus M6a
> laptop) go spastic and keyboard dies, no amount of ctrl + alt (delete or
> backsapce) can elicit a response, and acpi shutdown doesn't work.
> 
> For now i'm using my vm at low resolution, but is there a way to go back
> to the lenny xorg? i'm thinking about forcing dpkg to remove all the
> xserver-xorg* packages despite deps, and then just using apt to isntall
> the testing ones, then apt-get check?
> 
> Good idea, bad idea, suicide?

That's what I'd do...

> This is my work machine so my usual tolerance for breaking stuff in the
> persuit of knowledge is suspended.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"The kniiife..., the kniiife...  The life of the wife is ended
by the kni-ife."
Stewie Griffin & Eliza Pinchley
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