Package: xserver-xorg-video-i810 Version: 1:1.5.1.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Due to a power outage, I had to re-boot my etch box after some months, during which I'd updated it, so am now using the modern xserver-xorg-* package fragments, where I was using a more monolithic xorg when last I booted. When re-booted, I got no xdm up. Initially, this was because /etc/init.d/xdm referred to /usr/bin/X11/xdm, which no longer exists. When I amended that, I still got failure, since /etc/X11/default-display-manager had also survived, and referred to the same xdm. Reverting the prior amend and inserting a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin/ solved those problems, so that xdm at least *tried* to start up. It still failed, now saying that it couldn't make sense of the hardware (I've had a very grim six hours since then, of trying to get my machine back in an X-compatible state, without success, so don't remember the exact wording; having now reverted to as close as I can remember to that state, I lack the /usr/bin/X that xdm wants). Then I remembered that xorg had recently gone into many-package form, so went looking for a suitable xserver-xorg-video-* for the hardware reported to me by lspci: 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) It looks like the package I want is xserver-xorg-video-i810; but, when I tried to install that, it was broken, because it depends on xserver-xorg-core, which is not present in etch. So I can't actually install this package to find out whether it really is what I need. There seems little point making a package available to testing when it depends on a package unavailable to testing. Carving up a package into lots of little packages is a cool move, as long as all hardware set-ups whose support has moved into one of those packages are still catered to by a set-up on the branch (in this case testing) on which the big package provided support before its demise. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]