Am Wed, 18 May 2016 03:54:05 +0000 schrieb Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de>:
[ . . . ] > 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. [ . . . ] First of all, thanks for all that informations! And for your patience! I'm not sure if it is really a help (but that's my problem because of my ignorance!). In any case with the free driver on *THIS* machine i'm going nowhere: even simple tasks like slide shows in viewnior make it crash for overheating. In the end, would you say, it's easier to re-install jessie and get a more modern kernel then following the advices i got here (activate backports)? And if so, how can i keep /home (where i did some work to adapt jwm desktop and thatlike). /home sits on an own partition. If re-installing my idea would be, to use only the root partition, create another user (since as far as i see it's needed). Then after the installation went - hopefully, remember my crash-ice problem ;) - through, install fglrx and then create/add a new user (which would the user i am now) and dedicate to him the /home partition. Is that correct, so far? My question is: what will be the command to add the new user and to give him a different /home ? Thanks a lot in advance! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng