> As I explained in that bug report, it's an incompatibility between the > Squeeze kernel and Lenny userland. Unfortunately, there is no way to > express this in package conflicts to ensure that it does not occur on > partial upgrades.
Okay, so I'm clear: You're saying the Lenny xserver-xorg-video-nv is incompatible with the squeeze kernel? The thing that threw me off is that this incompatibility only manifests itself if the squeeze udev is installed. It doesn't occur with lenny udev. Also... the Lenny xserver-xorg-video-nv is similarly incompatible with the lenny-backports kernel, but that's a tangent. Also... if I upgrade xserver-xorg-video-nv to squeeze, then my situation improves to "X refuses to run", and I have to reboot to fix it. I don't think I have a custom kernel/udev/boot configuration. Is this problem going to happen to everyone who tries to run squeeze on an Inspiron 8500? Everyone who tries to run squeeze on a nvidia system? Right now this looks like a "Squeeze doesn't really support the Inspiron 8500" problem. Is the Inspiron 8500 the type of machine that debian would like to support? Granted, it is pretty old. I wouldn't disagree at all with lowering this bug report to "feature request" or reassigning it to a different package, but it seems like the current situation for the Inspiron 8500 (and other nvidia systems?) is sub-optimal, and sub-optimal, to me, means "bug report". PS... I don't have xserver-xorg-video-all or xserver-xorg-video-nouveau installed on the machine. Is that a factor? Am I using the wrong X video driver? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1pazri-000113...@thinkpad
