Re: [PLUG] Today's Kubuntu Gutsy updates broke my display

On 9/11/07, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com> wrote:

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?
>
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