Isaac Bennetch on 11 Sep 2007 16:27:12 -0000 |
Using Aptitude interactively, the ":" key (that's a colon, no quotes of course) will "Hold" the selected package for that pass, so you can hold xserver-xorg-core at the present version while updating everything else. Once a fix is out, simply don't hold it anymore to get the latest. isaac On 9/11/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2007 17:56:55 Art Alexion wrote: > > On Monday 10 September 2007 14:19:40 Will Dyson wrote: > > > Which driver are you using? Gutsy includes two different drivers for > > > intel video hardware, in the packages xserver-xorg-video-intel and > > > xserver-xorg-video-i810. The "i810" driver is the old and reliable > > > (but feature-limited) driver. The "intel" driver is newer and more > > > featureful (but you know what that means in terms of bugs). > > > > I was just poking around my xorg.conf files on the just today upgraded > > other xubuntu machine and it looks like the upgrade did not play with this > > file. The file date is in August, when I first started using this flat > > panel display. This was the same on the kubuntu machine except I kept > > playing with it to get it to work so the file date is not indicative of the > > upgrade. > > Looks like the problem was not with xorg.conf, but with xserver-xorg-core. > Downgrading to the previous version provided a temporary fix. > > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/137604 > > This is a temporary workaround, but now aptitude wants to upgrade it. I am a > bit confused as to how to run the daily updates while excluding this one. I > know that there is a command (I don't remember it now) that tells apt to > leave it alone, but that seems it would prevent upgrading to the eventual > fix. > > Any suggestions other than saying no to aptitude upgrade and the doing > individual installs of every other upgraded package? > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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