On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:42:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:52:23AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:29:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Not that I have any particular aversion to xorg 7.0, but if that's > > > needed it *might* be simplest to wait for it to stabilize into testing. > > > I suspect that bug reports from mixing xorg7.0 into an etch system at > > > this point would only confuse things, since it doesn't look as if it > > > was quite ready for sid yet. > > > > Actually it is lookking pretty good already. It has actually gone > > rather quick to get rid of the worst bugs in the packaging. Given it > > went to entirely modular, I am impressed. > > Unfortunately, aptitude tells me: > > * nvidia-glx [nonfree] depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) [UNAVAILABLE] > > Evidently, it wants xorg 7.0 from sid, and not xorg 6.9 from etch. > I hope the bugs ar out and it migrates down soon.
Managed to get nvidia-glx_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb nvidia-kernel-common_20051028+1_all.deb nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb nvidia-settings_1.0+20051122-1_amd64.deb using a private repository. The modules compiled properly, providing nvidia-kernel-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic_1.0.8756-1_amd64.deb The packages installed smoothly, and the X, gdm, and icewm come up beautifully. Yes, beautifully. Except for a few analog artifacts, I've never seen that old screen look that good. Now for the problem. I used gdm to start up idcmp (not sure I have the name right: that's the thing that allows you to log into another machine from gdm) on april, my AMD64 machine, which runs Debian AMD64 etch. Used it to connect to lovesong (a machine running sarge, and named after a T.S Eliot poem), got lovesong's login screen, and logged in. icewm came up nicely. But when I started up emacs, everything froze. That is, the window was created, with a frame and everything, but its contents remained blank. The mouse pointer would no longer respong to mouse movements, control-alt-backspace and conteol-alt-F1 would no longer work. lovesong (where the emacs would actually have run) was still up and unperturbed, but I was now unable to ssh into april from lovesong ("no route to host"). I had to hard-reset and reboot april. Is this a known problem? Is it even likely to have been caused by xorg 6.9/nvidia8756? Is it worth investigating right now? After all, I'm using old software. Should I just meekly wait until xorg 7.0 reaches etch and then investigate only if the problem recurs? By the way, I have the same home directory on the two systems. april exports it to lovesong via NFS. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]