Re: Downgrading Xorg
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On 03/10/08 23:54, Rich Healey wrote:
> 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.
(Disclaimer: I run X via startx from the console.)
I don't see why it should be.
# apt-get --simulate --purge remove xserver-xorg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xorg* xserver-xorg-core* xserver-xorg-input-evdev*
xserver-xorg-input-kbd* xserver-xorg-input-mouse*
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics* xserver-xorg-video-apm*
xserver-xorg-video-dummy* xserver-xorg-video-fbdev*
xserver-xorg-video-i810* xserver-xorg-video-intel*
xserver-xorg-video-nv* xserver-xorg-video-vesa*
xserver-xorg-video-vga* xserver-xorg-video-via*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 15 to remove and 185 not upgraded.
Purg xserver-xorg-video-via [1:0.2.2-5]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-vga [1:4.1.0-8]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-vesa [1:1.3.0-4]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-nv [1:2.1.7-1]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-i810 [2:2.2.1-1]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-intel [2:2.2.1-1]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [1:0.3.1-4]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-dummy [1:0.2.0-7]
Purg xserver-xorg-input-synaptics [0.14.7~git20070706-2]
Purg xserver-xorg-input-mouse [1:1.2.3-2]
Purg xserver-xorg-input-kbd [1:1.2.2-3]
Purg xserver-xorg-input-evdev [1:1.2.0-1] [xserver-xorg ]
Purg xserver-xorg-core [2:1.4.1~git20080131-1] [xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-video-apm ]
Purg xserver-xorg [1:7.3+10] [xserver-xorg-video-apm ]
Purg xserver-xorg-video-apm [1:1.1.1-10]
> I've downgraded smaller packages (moc) in the manner i'm suggesting
> before, but never anything as big as X.
- --
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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