Re: Downgrading Xorg
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
i was asking whether downgrading xorg *was* suicide, not offering it as
a solution.
I've downgraded smaller packages (moc) in the manner i'm suggesting
before, but never anything as big as X.
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