Package: xorg Version: 1:7.5+1 Severity: normal yesterdays upgrade totally broke my X, making the computer effectively unusable for work.
what happend? xorg was upgraded to 7.5, although the used nvidia proprietary driver (from the debian repos!) is not yet functional with the new version. nvidia-glx is available, the necessary kernel module/source package not -- therefore nvidia-glx is not installable. no warning of any kind appeared, pointing out the possible breakage. i'd really appreciate a more intelligent depency check in the lines of: - what driver is currently used (xorg.conf)? if there's no xorg.conf, most likely the default xorg driver, determined by xorg itself is used -- and with a new release, the driver will be available automatically. if there's an xorg.conf and the xorg.conf specifies a driver, it should be easy to check for a package of that driver. - is it compatible with the new Xorg package? - if no: is there an installable newer, compatible package for that driver available? if the answer to one of the last two questions is "no", at least a dialog pointing out the issue and asking for a decision should appear. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xorg depends on: ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.3.4-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4 ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.6.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglu1-mesa 7.6.1-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii x11-apps 7.5+1 X applications ii x11-session-utils 7.5+1 X session utilities ii x11-utils 7.5+1 X11 utilities ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1 X font server utilities ii x11-xkb-utils 7.5+1 X11 XKB utilities ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+1 X server utilities ii xauth 1:1.0.4-1 X authentication utility ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.1 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.1 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.1 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.1-1 scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-utils 1:7.5+2 X Window System font utility progr ii xinit 1.2.0-1 X server initialisation tool ii xkb-data 1.7-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.5-1 Core documentation for the X.org X pn xserver-xorg <none> (no description available) ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 253-1 X terminal emulator xorg recommends no packages. Versions of packages xorg suggests: pn xorg-docs <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
