[CLUE-Tech] Debian sid & xfree86 4.2.1-7

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (jzb at dissociatedpress.net) wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> > I am running sid in an Inspiron 8K (Rage Mobility 128) with xfree86
> > 4.2.1-7 with the 2.4.21-rc6 kernel.  I had X and Enlightenment running
> > great, but with the last apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade X
> > windows will start however is now giving me an error.  I understand
> > that this might be cause by trying to run X as root, but this was
> > while trying as user.
> 
> First -- never, ever, ever, ever, ever run Debian unstable and be
> surprised when something breaks, or even expect it not to be broken in
> the first place... especially when doing updates. 
> 
> Second -- This is a known issue:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196575
> http://www.debianplanet.com/node.php?id=966#comment
> 
> I don't think it has anything to do with running X as root, the new
> updates break several things due to "some problems with GCC 3.3." 

Wayne,

After reading this bug report that Joe Brockmeier was kind enough to
link to, it looks like downgrading you xserver-xfree86 package to
4.2.1-6 might fix things.

Tim

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