Re: Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

2010-10-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-26 05:05 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: >> 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,

Re: Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

2010-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 25 oct 10, 23:05:56, Brian Sammon wrote: > 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? But you are not running squeeze

Re: Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

2010-10-25 Thread Brian Sammon
> 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-vide

Re: Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

2010-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-24 21:17 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: > I entered a bug that upgrading udev from lenny to unstable breaks X. (It > also > breaks with the squeeze version of udev ) > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600551 ) > > The bug was closed without any changes to the package, o

Re: Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

2010-10-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 24 oct 10, 15:17:50, Brian Sammon wrote: > I entered a bug that upgrading udev from lenny to unstable breaks X. (It > also > breaks with the squeeze version of udev ) > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600551 ) > > The bug was closed without any changes to the package,

Squeeze X broken on Inspiron 8500--how to report bug

2010-10-24 Thread Brian Sammon
I entered a bug that upgrading udev from lenny to unstable breaks X. (It also breaks with the squeeze version of udev ) ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600551 ) The bug was closed without any changes to the package, or any other package. While I've found a workaround, I'm con