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

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Thanks.  I've never tried interactive mode; only the standard apt-get commands.

Isaac Bennetch 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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