In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well.
I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a major upgrade (at least now that the problems exposed with the early reports have been fixed). I went into aptitude, unheld xorg-xserver, hit U, and then g. Although I was expecting to have to apt-get install -f a few times, I didn't have to run it once! I have: IBM ThinkPad t40p ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02) Debian etch I haven't seen any strange behavior in a few days now. I believe I read that the ATI fixes were applied to Xorg 7.1, but it appears that the these fixes were also applied to xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1 which is available to Debian users of Xorg 7.0. My thanks and appreciation go out to the X Strike Force. A couple of notes: 1. glxgears missing The fix was to install mesa-utils. 2. The courier fonts were ugly. The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593 3. Many warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf. 4. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg STILL doesn't give you a configuration file. I determined some workarounds: sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf sudo vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.postinst # Comment out the following line as well as its matching else and endif. # if [ -z "$UPGRADE" ] || dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "1:7.0.14"; then sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 5. Touchpad not working The fix was to remove the line Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" in Section "InputDevice", Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" since the driver finds the device on its own (with Protocol "auto-dev"). -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
