Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6
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From: Matteo Riva on 29 Jan 2010 11:00 Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx driver was working fine? What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those versions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 29 Jan 2010 12:20 On Friday 29 January 2010 09:51:02 Matteo Riva wrote: > Squeeze upgrade broke fglrx driver with the new xserver. > > How can I downgrade the xserver from 1.7.4 back to 1.6.5 when fglrx > driver was working fine? > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? Package downgrades are not supported. The safest way would be to restore from your last system backup. If you still have to go the downgrade route, I suggest you start with xserver- xorg-core. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
From: Stefaan Himpe on 29 Jan 2010 18:40 I also needed to downgrade when the nvidia driver was broken a few weeks ago. I managed to do so as root using dpkg with the -i option. Note that apt-get from that moment on complained about some broken packages on my system (until I did a dist-upgrade when the nvidia driver was fixed). For downgrading, I simply used the previous version of the packages, as found in my /var/cache/apt/archives folder. If you cannot find the packages there, you can try to search them via http://snapshot.debian.net/ hth, Stefaan. > What packages do I need to downgrade, and where can I find those > versions? > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Matteo Riva on 29 Jan 2010 18:50 On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Stefaan Himpe <stefaan.himpe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I also needed to downgrade when the nvidia driver was broken a few weeks > ago. I managed to do so as root using dpkg with the -i option. > Note that apt-get from that moment on complained about some broken packages > on my system (until I did a dist-upgrade when the nvidia driver was fixed). > > For downgrading, I simply used the previous version of the packages, as > found in my /var/cache/apt/archives folder. > > If you cannot find the packages there, you can try to search them via > http://snapshot.debian.net/ Hello Stefaan, thanks for your reply. Can you specify which packages you downgraded exactly? I only managed to find a copy of xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core but installing them didn't seem to be enough as all I got was a blank screen I could not get out of (no ctrl+alt+f1/2/3/4). I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or am I looking in the wrong place? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Stefaan Himpe on 29 Jan 2010 19:40
> I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or > am I looking in the wrong place Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there. Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc) before you start to fiddle with these things. Disclaimer: I'm by no means a downgrade expert ;) Perhaps you could temporarily get the X packages from debian testing in order to downgrade? If you really want the previous version: I think if you inspect the dependencies of the last working version of the xserver-xorg package you should be able to find out which packages can go with that (use dpkg --info for that). The specific packages I downgraded too, if I recall correctly, were the following (i cannot give any guarantees that these actually are the right ones, sorry, and perhaps you need a different video driver, etc.) xserver-common_2%3a1.6.5-1_all.deb xserver-xephyr_2%3a1.6.5-1_i386.deb xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.6.5-1_i386.deb xserver-xorg-input-evdev_1%3a2.2.5-1_i386.deb xserver-xorg-input-kbd_1%3a1.3.2-4_i386.deb xserver-xorg-input-mouse_1%3a1.4.0-4_i386.deb xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.2.0-2_i386.deb xserver-xorg-video-nv_1%3a2.1.13-1_i386.deb Best regards, Stefaan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |