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Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810
Version: 1:1.5.1.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Due to a power outage, I had to re-boot my etch box after some months,
during which I'd updated it, so am now using the modern xserver-xorg-*
package fragments, where I was using a more monolithic xorg when last
I booted. When re-booted, I got no xdm up.
Initially, this was because /etc/init.d/xdm referred to
/usr/bin/X11/xdm, which no longer exists. When I amended that, I
still got failure, since /etc/X11/default-display-manager had also
survived, and referred to the same xdm. Reverting the prior amend and
inserting a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin/ solved those problems, so that
xdm at least *tried* to start up.
It still failed, now saying that it couldn't make sense of the
hardware (I've had a very grim six hours since then, of trying to get
my machine back in an X-compatible state, without success, so don't
remember the exact wording; having now reverted to as close as I can
remember to that state, I lack the /usr/bin/X that xdm wants). Then I
remembered that xorg had recently gone into many-package form, so went
looking for a suitable xserver-xorg-video-* for the hardware reported
to me by lspci:
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
It looks like the package I want is xserver-xorg-video-i810; but, when
I tried to install that, it was broken, because it depends on
xserver-xorg-core, which is not present in etch. So I can't actually
install this package to find out whether it really is what I need.
There seems little point making a package available to testing when it
depends on a package unavailable to testing.
Carving up a package into lots of little packages is a cool move, as
long as all hardware set-ups whose support has moved into one of those
packages are still catered to by a set-up on the branch (in this case
testing) on which the big package provided support before its demise.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Source: xdm
Source-Version: 1:1.0.4-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xdm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
xdm_1.0.4-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/x/xdm/xdm_1.0.4-1.diff.gz
xdm_1.0.4-1.dsc
to pool/main/x/xdm/xdm_1.0.4-1.dsc
xdm_1.0.4-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/x/xdm/xdm_1.0.4-1_i386.deb
xdm_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/x/xdm/xdm_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 365134@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org> (supplier of updated xdm package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:25:22 -0400
Source: xdm
Binary: xdm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1:1.0.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
Changed-By: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
Description:
xdm - X display manager
Closes: 365134
Changes:
xdm (1:1.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release
* Version x11-common dependency. Thanks Olivier Ponsini, Ian Bruce,
and Steve Langasek. (closes: #365134)
Files:
c32ce876345fa99f051715cfc3522a45 887 x11 optional xdm_1.0.4-1.dsc
955b252276271071488893201cfead48 481966 x11 optional xdm_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz
096816e6f2aac9a0fdcf77194525576a 198470 x11 optional xdm_1.0.4-1.diff.gz
4943e9d159893e05c36f93ad185b771b 157966 x11 optional xdm_1.0.4-1_i386.deb
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