xorg vs xfree86
 

I did an apt-get upgrade && dist-upgrade yesterday and it installed xorg, removed xfree86.

But now my graphics card doesn't work anymore with the faster s3 module but only with the slow vesa module.

I want to install xfree86 again, and remove xorg.

But then I want to make sure that when I do an upgrade in the future xorg doesn't get installed.
How would I do that?

greetz,
gunnix

I use only aptitude and here it's easy to "hold" packages. You just open aptitude's ncurses frontend, move the highlighted area on top of some package and then press the "=" key. But this doesn't "hold" packages if you use apt-get instead of aptitude.

The Debian Reference describes a method that should always apply regardless of the APT frontend you happen to choose.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...en.html#s-hold

Thx. This works:

add the following to /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: xserver-common
Pin: release a=stable
Pi00n-Priority: 2000

Package: xserver-xfree86
Pin: release a=stable
Pi00n-Priority: 2000

Or you can use apt-config (or edit /etc/apt/apt.conf directly). Whatever you find most convenient. :D