On Tue, 17 May 2016 21:37:13 +0200, Emninger wrote: > Hi. Indeed upgrading my system in some way i lost fglrx, and now, when > i try to reinstall it from the repositories i'm getting that there is > no fglrx driver. When i reactivate the Jessie repositories, the driver > is there but when i try to install it, synaptic or apt-get lament that > fglrx depends on xorg-video-abi- 19 (or 18 or 17 ...) but that they are > not to be installed. Now, xorg-video-abi should be there with xorg-core > which is installed. > > I'd like to solve this problem without having to do a downgrade (= a > complete reinstall of Jessie) ... ? The overheating of this samsung > (with the free ati driver) is a serious problem, making it not really > useable ... May be there is another way to reduce overheating other > than the non-free catalyst driver?
Hi Emninger, that's exactly the problem with fglrx: Until there is a version compatible with video-abi 20 or up, if you want to have it in Ascii, you need xorg-video-abi < 20. The virtual package xorg-video-abi 18 is provided by xserver- xorg-core version 1.16 from Jessie (currently that's 2:1.16.4-1, to be precise). So you'd have to downgrade that package, and in consequence downgrade xorg (and all of it's companions) to version 1:7.7+7. I had to do just that, and even using aptitude, which allows to navigate the package tree somewhat comfortably, it was a tedious task. Plus, one has to make sure not to upgrade xorg to a "wrong" version at a later time. For the record: I never, ever do an apt-get upgrade - IMNSHO it does not provide enough fine grained control over what exactly is going to happen to your system, and it bit me very badly in the past. Instead I always check with aptitude first what's going to be upgraded, and only let it do it's job when I'm sufficiently confident it's going to be alright. As a protective measure against my own inaptitude (pun not intended), I pinned all the xorg* packages to their respective Jessie versions, so I would not accidentally upgrade to a version that would break fglrx. I know this is all far from ideal, but the free ATI driver never worked satisfactory on my desktop machine. Which is a real pity! HTH, at least a bit. Regards Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng