[solved] Beware of xserver-xorg being removed today

[seasons]

fglrx-legacy driver is not going to work with Xserver >= 1.13

Your options:
1) Hold back xserver indefinitely (but who knows how long that will work)..
2) Find a more stable distro
3) Use the open-source driver

[Santa]

Hello,

I have just fixed the fglrx-driver but not the -legacy for now, I will dig into the matter if I have some time.

[seasons]

I wouldn't bother. There are no patches floating around to make fglrx-legacy run on xserver >= 1.13

[absolut]

i'd like to just report that with the fixed packages everything is solved for me, too. thanks a lot for your great support.

[aaditya]

Updated without problems here (Debian Sid), (Siduction in VM)

[Crust]

All my xserver packages are labeled as being on hold.

Is this normal?

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
 xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati
 xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-intel
 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition
 xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
 xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng
 xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.

[piper]

hmm, doesn't look right to me ..

For me a du gives ..

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The following packages will be upgraded:
 apt-show-versions info install-info libdatetime-timezone-perl libemail-valid-perl libenca0 libgd3 x11-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all
 xserver-xorg-video-vmware xutils
12 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,553 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
What does

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apt-mark showhold say ?

What I don't see listed in your list is

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xserver-xorg-input-all

To keep an eye on things

http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/xserver1.14.html

and

http://release.debian.org/transitions/

[Crust]

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# apt-mark showhold


has no output - I do not have any packages on hold.

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# apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-all:
 Installed: 1:7.7+4
 Candidate: 1:7.7+4
 Version table:
*** 1:7.7+4 0
       500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    1:7.7+3~deb7u1 0
       500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages


It shows that xserver-xorg-input-all  is already updated.

[Crust]

I installed  xserver-org-video-all and everything updated.  I'm not sure why it's needed to d-u.

[ralul]

aptitude "shift-C" on the package would show you video-all lost support of many very old drivers. I don't need all the "all" packages, also from input-all I don't need mouse and synaptics. No problems here just having:
xorg
xorg-docs-core
xserver-common
xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-325.15-3

[harley-peter]

I use a desktop computer with an Nvidia card and a laptop with ATI Radeon grafik. I updated the desktop machine without any problem but the laptop hold back many packages:

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Die folgenden Pakete sind zurückgehalten worden:
 libfm-data xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
 xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
 xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
 xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition
 xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
 xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa
 xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo

[timc]

harley-peter, I am all up to date with my ati card, but right now it looks like there is a "collision" with udev.

http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/xserver1.14.html

Tim