Re: Downgrading Xorg
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But wouldn't that also remove every X application i haven't built from
source as well, due to dependencies?
Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
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