xserver-xorg-core update

[Dana J. Laude]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:52, Ari Torhamo wrote:
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> The patch broke my X too - and my brother's. There were two xorg
> patches brought available today (maybe the first one was available
> already yesterday, but I only noticed it this morning) and I guess
> the later one was to fix the problem with the first one.
>
> It's hard to get to know the number of potentially affected systems,
> because the fix became available quickly. Apparently large part of
> the installations weren't upgraded with the first patch at all and
> many who installed the first patch may not have rebooted before
> installing the second one. People may think they installed the
> problematic patch without problems, but they actually may have
> installed just the second patch.
>
> My machine has a VIA KT400 motherboard and an Nvidia Geforce MX400
> graphics card. My brother's has an Intel 440BX motherboard and
> Geforce 256 (NV10) graphics card.

I'm one of those in the "did not reboot" part. ;)  I did get a new 
update for the problem today... problem solved.

I also really don't understand all of the complaints about this problem. 
Shit happens  sometimes.  I used to run debian unstable and it was 
actually more solid than debian testing. In other words, it was a big 
oops, but it was fixed asap. (actually within 24hrs, try that with MS)

Dana