Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

[Stefaan Himpe <stefaan.himpe@gmail.com>]

> I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or
> am I looking in the wrong place
Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there.
Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc)
before you start to fiddle with these things.

Disclaimer: I'm by no means a downgrade expert ;)
Perhaps you could temporarily get the  X packages from debian testing in 
order to downgrade?

If you really want the previous version: I think if you inspect the 
dependencies of the last working version of the xserver-xorg
package you should be able to find out which packages can go with that
(use dpkg --info for that).

The specific packages I downgraded too, if I recall correctly, were the 
following
(i cannot give any guarantees that these actually are the right ones, 
sorry,
and perhaps you need a different video driver, etc.)

xserver-common_2%3a1.6.5-1_all.deb
xserver-xephyr_2%3a1.6.5-1_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.6.5-1_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-input-evdev_1%3a2.2.5-1_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-input-kbd_1%3a1.3.2-4_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-input-mouse_1%3a1.4.0-4_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.2.0-2_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-video-nv_1%3a2.1.13-1_i386.deb

Best regards,
Stefaan.