Michael Gilbert wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg > Version: 1:7.3+2 > Severity: normal > > when i upgraded from lenny to sid (xorg 7.2 to 7.3), my keyboard and > mouse stopped working. after some work, i found that the > xorg-server-input-kbd and xorg-server-input-mouse packages had not > been installed during the upgrade. after installing those packages, > the keyboard and mouse worked again. > > i very well may have done something wrong, because i was doing a lot at > once. but it appears that at this point upgrades from xorg 7.2 to 7.3 > are broken. >
How did you upgrade exactly? I've been upgrading multiple times between 7.2 and 7.3 when the latter was in experimental, I don't remember loosing my input packages like this as long as I was reading aptitude warnings/questions. There's an ABI bump for both input and video drivers between 7.2 (xserver-xorg-core 1.3 in testing) and 7.3 (1.4 in unstable). So if you upgrade xserver-xorg-core to unstable, you need to upgrade the drivers too, i.e. input-mouse, input-kbd, and your video driver package too. We have defined some conflicts to prevent you from having a driver from testing while you have xserver-xorg-core from unstable. But also, you must to have at least one input and one video driver from unstable to satisfy xserver-xorg-core dependencies. If (after the upgrade) you had xserver-xorg-core 1.4 installed without input-mouse and input-kbd, it means you had another input driver from unstable installed, for instance evdev or synaptics. Then, is it possible that you upgraded xserver-xorg-core alone (or xserver-xorg, which is tightly coupled to xserver-xorg-core), then apt-get or aptitude complained that it would conflict with your old input drivers (mouse and kbd) and thus proposed to remove them, and you would have said ok? Maybe /var/log/dpkg.log or /var/log/aptitude will help you remember what happened exactly? Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
