Re: state of xserver-xorg-video-ati

2011-10-02 Thread Miles Bader
Ok, I looked at it more, and it was my fault -- somehow I had the version of xserver-xorg-video-r128 from experimental installed (the rest of xorg is from unstable), and that was screwing up dependencies. BTW, although it's in "experimental", that version (6.8.1-5+exp2) of xserver-xorg-video-r128

Re: state of xserver-xorg-video-ati

2011-09-29 Thread Miles Bader
Julien Cristau writes: >> For a long time, I haven't been able to upgrade xorg on my system >> because it I use "xserver-xorg-video-ati", which depends on >> "xserver-xorg-video-r128", which is out-of-date w/r/t the rest of xorg. >> > What do you mean "out of date w/r/t the rest of xorg"? [Sorry

Re: state of xserver-xorg-video-ati

2011-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 15:47:55 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > For a long time, I haven't been able to upgrade xorg on my system > because it I use "xserver-xorg-video-ati", which depends on > "xserver-xorg-video-r128", which is out-of-date w/r/t the rest of xorg. > What do you mean "out of date w/

Re: state of xserver-xorg-video-ati

2011-09-29 Thread Miles Bader
Michel Dänzer writes: >> (1) Is xserver-xorg-video-ati still necessary, or can i install only >> xserver-xorg-video-radeon and avoid the above problem? > > -ati is only necessary for automatic loading of the radeon driver. If > you have a xorg.conf with at least a Section "Device" for Driver >

Re: state of xserver-xorg-video-ati

2011-09-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2011-09-29 at 15:47 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > (1) Is xserver-xorg-video-ati still necessary, or can i install only > xserver-xorg-video-radeon and avoid the above problem? -ati is only necessary for automatic loading of the radeon driver. If you have a xorg.conf with at least a S

state of xserver-xorg-video-ati

2011-09-28 Thread Miles Bader
For a long time, I haven't been able to upgrade xorg on my system because it I use "xserver-xorg-video-ati", which depends on "xserver-xorg-video-r128", which is out-of-date w/r/t the rest of xorg. My system has a radeon GPU, so of course what I _really_ want is xserver-xorg-video-radeon, but my i