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aptitude install ~i~nxorg
aptitude safe-upgrade
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apt-show-versions|grep unknown
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aptitude full-upgrade -s
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aptitude install ~i~nxorg
aptitude safe-upgrade
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apt-show-versions|grep unknown
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aptitude full-upgrade -s
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deborphan
aptitude search ~o
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aptitude search ~U
It's always a good idea to back up important files, specially on an office workstation where they might be needed whilst you are delving into the intricacies of aptitude and xorg etc! I'd just like to reiterate that Stable is the best choice for running your "critical apps" but since you don't seem averse to under-the-hood stuff, maybe better to use another machine?Arkhos wrote:To kedaha:
I can do reformat but I am very hopeful not to do it cuz I really want to fix my system up to its last potential. I still believe that the Debian system can withstand some bashing along the way.
By the way, I prefer the Debian way!
Hmm.. on your end, do you still believe that my system can be fixed?
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$ vrms
No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian! rms would be proud.
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deborphan|xargs aptitude purge
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aptitude -s purge gcc-4.2-base libcap1 libdns45 libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 libvolume-id0 xarchive ~n"2.6.26-2-686"
I'm not sure. If I haad to guess that's an xargs error rather than an aptitude error, possibly caused by aptitude's return code upon an abort.Why the error? Thanks.
@bugsbunny I assumed that /etc/X11/xorg.conf is necessary because removing it enables the default driver. I found that the above minimal file did not work in a recent installation of Squeeze but the /etc/X11/xorg.conf resulting from nvidia-xconfig did.bugsbunny wrote: If needed edit /etc/X11/xorg.confCode: Select all
Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Driver "nvidia" EndSection
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$ vrms
No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian! rms would be proud.
Sadly, it automatically aborted itself. I did not do an abort. It was automatic. Hmm.. Is the abort due to my running the command on X-windows? I did not stopped x-windows when I did it. Is my analysis correct?bugsbunny wrote:I'm not sure. If I haad to guess that's an xargs error rather than an aptitude error, possibly caused by aptitude's return code upon an abort.Why the error? Thanks.
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Why did you abort anyways?
It is necessary, as you say, since otherwise the default driver is used. In most cases the minimum config above will work. In some it won't, which is why I said until/unless. But starting from the minimum won't hurt. If the minimum doesn't work then you can either look at the logs and try to figure out what you need, or you can try running xconfig. Back when xorg.conf was necessary and had a lot of entries xconfig was needed much more often, but the autodetect stuff tends to work in the majority of cases nowadays.kedaha wrote:@bugsbunny I assumed that /etc/X11/xorg.conf is necessary because removing it enables the default driver. I found that the above minimal file did not work in a recent installation of Squeeze but the /etc/X11/xorg.conf resulting from nvidia-xconfig did.bugsbunny wrote: If needed edit /etc/X11/xorg.confCode: Select all
Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Driver "nvidia" EndSection
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aptitude purge gcc-4.2-base libcap1 libdns45 libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 libvolume-id0 xarchive ~n"2.6.26-2-686" xarchiver+
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deborphan alsa-modules-2.6.32-5-686
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aptitude search ~o