Re: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau removes xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse and others

[Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de>]

Am Sunday, 18. September 2011 schrieb Julien Cristau:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 15:23:32 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Hi Rhonda,
> > 
> > thanks for the quick reply. Worked indeed. The only challenge beyond that
> > was that also needed to upgrade the kernel, otherwise I saw in
> > /var/log/Xorg.log.0
> > 
> > (EE) [drm] failed to open device
> > 
> > and the backported xserver-xorg-video-nouveau did not get up.
> > 
> > Is there a better place to document this (or even enforce by a
> > dependency?) than the mailing list archive here?
> 
> $ dpkg --fsys-tarfile
> ../xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1_amd64.deb | tar
> xOf - ./usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/NEWS.Debian.gz | zcat
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (1:0.0.16+git20100518+4b8f1a0-1) experimental;
> urgency=low
> 
>   This version of xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is linked against a newer
>   libdrm-nouveau which breaks the ABI and is not compatible with kernels
>   <= 2.6.33.  You need to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.34-rc1 or newer.
> 
>  -- Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>  Sat, 22 May 2010 10:22:42 +0200
> 
> That should show up automatically on package installation if you have
> apt-listchanges installed (which you really should).
> 

Thanks, it seems it is all there, I just did not look carefully enough.

Rainer


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Rainer Dorsch
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