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Rogue Package In Lenny

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I moved to lenny from etch awhile back and until yesterday, May 7, 2008, I have had no complaints. The problems relate to unacceptable behavior immediately after updating.

First Problem
I updated my mirror yesterday before I carried it to update an isolated machine. After the update, the mouse location shifted about 6 inches to the left (x = -6in). That is, the visual clue of the mouse arrow shows up about 6 inches to the left of where the action (left click for example) happens. I did not have time to trouble shoot.

Second Problem
Today, May 8, 2008, I updated a machine from the Internet (DSL connection). After rebooting the colors were weird (super weird). I logged in to a console as root and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. The script did not have a video card choice nor any of the questions usually following the choice of video card. I pulled the card (ATI Radeon (c) 2000 AGP). I pulled the card and switched to the on-board Intel 82815 chip. The colors are now correct, but I cannot get better than 800x600 again because the reconfiguration script does not have the choices.

I am wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience recently. I am not going to update any more of the 9 desktops and one laptop for which I am responsible until I have my confidence in the mirror system restored. Please contact me at if you have experienced something similar.

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Re: Rogue Package In Lenny

Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2008-05-08 16:39.

I don't understand the weird colors, but you could have problems when upgrading and using an ATI card - you need to drop back to a console, shut down X, and re-link your proprietary driver. Unless of course your ATI card is one of the ancient ones for which there is already a driver in X.org.

No idea what's going on with the pointer problems you describe; a bad X config file or incorrect video card initialization (buffered, with something strange going on with the buffer due to incorrect assumption about resolution), or bad initialization and use of GPU-rendered pointer (in which case switch off GPU rendering of the pointer).

If you suspect problems with a mirror, simply try out another mirror.

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