On Wednesday 20 September 2006 14:08, Cam Ellison wrote: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Thanks for the comments Richard; > > > > However, when i performed the dist-upgrade i did the following: > > > > updated to latest Sarge > > changed sources to testing > > updated to latest testing > > changed sources to unstable > > updated to latest unstable > > > > note that the initial sources list pointed to Sarge > > > > i'll wait a couple days to see if this fixes itself. > > Keep in mind that, for Debian, unstable is definitely bleeding edge. > Weird bugs show up sometimes, because the package itself is not quite > right. > > Cheers > > Cam
Thanks for the tips. now for some new strangeness.... after one more shot at a dist-upgrade on this machine, i am informed that the nvidia-glx package is broken and will need to be removed if i am to keep xorg installed.... #aptitude install xserver-xorg The following packages are BROKEN: nvidia-glx-dev The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: xkb-data xresprobe xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 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-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-i810 xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv 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-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: nvidia-glx note that kde still will not install, and now xorg is borked. not sure what to do now... anyone have an idea? thanks! -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
