On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:12:30PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > 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.
This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365134 > > 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. xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 is still in testing, so you do not need xserver-xorg-video-i810. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]