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Bug#674501: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome: gdm3 spawns tens of slaves and X servers after upgrade to 0.2.904+svn1050-1+b1



On 06/06/2012 04:25 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 23:38:06 -0400, Fred Korz wrote:

Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
Version: 1:0.2.904+svn1050-1+b1
Severity: important

This is probably the same as #675407.

Cheers,
Julien

After a few hours of looking at pinning docs and experimenting, I have downgraded to a working though rather old openchrome and associated packages, pinned to "stable".  Not perfect, but it will do far better than forcing the vesa driver and associated non-native screen resolution visual artifacts.  Quite a relief to not have the display trying to dither its impression of 1024x768 on 1920x1080 screen.

Though I've found and added to the sources.list entries for squeeze-backports and experimental, and run "apt-get update", I couldn't seem to get the pinning  syntax to select either the squeeze-backports or experimental versions, both of which are closer to the last working versions I saw on unstable.

Package: xserver-common
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: xserver-xorg*
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001

Just checked back on #675407 and it looks like there's a fix available since Friday, but I've not seen new packages show up in "apt-cache show" or "apt-cache policy" output yet, and don't have time before next weekend to go the source-level + manual install route.

Thanks again (and any insight to the pinning syntax)
Fred


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