Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display
On 12 Apr 2009, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:29:25AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I'd revert if I could but I don't think it's possible.
>
> It's possible but requires some 'force'. ;)
>
> Warning: You shouldn't do this within a running X instance.
>
> a) Remove all xserver-xorg packages.
> b) Download x11-common 7.3+18 from your mirror of choice and
> dpkg -i --force-all it into the system.
> c) Switch your sources.list to testing for the moment.
> d) Install the xserver-xorg packages you removed with a) again.
> e) Maybe set the xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video package to
> hold if it works.
>
> No guarantee though.
>
> Sven
> --
Many thanks for this. I tried yesterday but omitted step b, so it didn't
work. If I can get my courage up perhaps I'll try again.
Anthony
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