Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:10, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:43, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation:
> >
> > > Since my setup was working perfectly well before, I would like to simply
> > > return to 4.1.0-14. This appears to not be possible, because apt-get
> > > says that version 4.1.0-14 of xserver-xfree86 is not available.
> >
> > And you empty /var/cache/apt/archives immediately after every upgrade?
> > Not a good idea. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, look in that
> > directory and see if the required packages are there.)
>
> Well, I use apt-get clean on occasion. The -14 release of XFree86 was
> several months ago. Would be nice if there was apt-get
> clean-except-last-version i supposed.
>
> > Anyway, I think everything you need is in my not-quite-latest-packages
> > archive:
> >
> > http://crdic.ath.cx/debian/
> >
> > This site is not on a terribly zippy connection, so expect a download of
> > all the X packages to take a while.
> >
> > For what it's worth, the -15 X packages are working fine for me.
>
> I'm going to install 4.2.0 and see what happens.
I did in fact move to 4.2.0 and now my display works again. The
binaries are not quite the right fit for a Debian system: all my ALT
bindings changed to META, I had to edit XftConfig, and my xterms are no
longer in color. However, it is better to have a display than to not
have one.
-jwb
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