nouveau causing screen smears/garble

[cynwulf]

Dowgrading does it. Now, questions are how long will we be keeping the old libcairo, and will this break something else before the EXA bug is solved and libcairo is upgradable ?

When you're running the testing or unstable distributions - this happens. Put libcairo2 on hold and when xserver 1.12 arrives in testing you can try upgrading again... no one can tell you how long it will take - it depends on the state of the xorg packages in unstable.

http://www.debian.org/devel/testing

[ramack]

Putting the package on hold is done by pinning it?

[cynwulf]

If you use aptitude it's easy enough:

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# aptitude hold libcairo2

unhold should be self explanatory...

Remember that apt-get will not respect hold's made by aptitude...

I don't use apt-get much these days, but I believe it still works in the same way as ever, e.g:

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# echo "libcairo2 hold" | dpkg --set-selections

And to unhold:

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# echo "libcairo2 install" | dpkg --set-selections

[ramack]

I use apt-get. Thanks, better and easier than pinning. I haven't pinning packages but only a couple times, and that was pinning to Testing or Stable in Sid. Can you pin package versions? Holding looks more appropriate in this case.

Rich

[cynwulf]

Yes you can apply pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, but this method is easier and cleaner IMO.

[Jerome]

Hi.

Possible fix on the way :

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55723

[Jerome]

I just un-holded libcairo2 and I don't see any problem anymore on my up-to-date Wheezy.

[ramack]

Sweet! Thanks for trying and posting your results!
Rich