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I see Xorg has made it to unstable but I wonder how to get it installed the right way. Is it just uninstalling the xserver-xfree86 and installing xserver-xorg? Are there any other xfree86 packages that can go aswell?
"apt-get install xserver-xorg" did it for me. There are still some broken packages but they won't be upgraded as a lot of programs need to be rebuilt without the xf86 stuff. Haven't had much problems yet, just the normal configuring again and a few packages are being kept back.
I upgraded to xorg yesterday, and so far it hasn't been so bad, just the usual 'few broken libs' and 'held back' packages. The only problem I have so far is that it doesn't save my monitor configurations unless I do it by hand.
I got it done last night after some fighting with aptitude to get the broken packages fixed. After reboot, everything seems to be fine. The only package I had to get rid of was GImageView, which I was thinking of finding a replacement for anyway.
I would definitely use aptitude to solve all the dependency issues. I don't like apt-get because it's difficult to control what get's updated and what get's held back.
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