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=== Cruft in /usr/X11R6/bin ===

After the upgrade to 7.0, you should be left with nothing in /usr/X11R6/bin. after upgrading your packages, "ls /usr/X11R6/bin" should return nothing. If you have stuff in there, remove it, it may cause problems such as packages failing to upgrade.

On 2006/04/11, xorg version 7.0 was uploaded to unstable. This is a major change in the packaging, and is therefore a complex upgrade which is causing lots of problems for users. Here are some of the more common problems and how to solve them:

Cruft in /usr/X11R6/bin

After the upgrade to 7.0, you should be left with nothing in /usr/X11R6/bin. after upgrading your packages, "ls /usr/X11R6/bin" should return nothing. If you have stuff in there, remove it, it may cause problems such as packages failing to upgrade.

Missing Drivers

(EE) No Input driver matching `$foo'

Now that all the drivers are packaged separately, you may need to install some extra packages. When you get the above message, look for a pacakge named like "xserver-xorg*foo". You will almost definately need to install:

  • xserver-xorg-input-kbd
  • xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  • xserver-xorg-input-evdev

And you are likely to need to install a xserver-xorg-video-foo driver for your video card.

Unable to find Font

(EE) Unable to find default font: fixed

The xfonts-base package now installs fonts to /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7. You should will need to edit your ?FontPath entries in xorg.conf to that point to /usr/lib/X11/fonts to point to /etc/X11/fonts. ls /etc/X11/fonts to get a list of directories.

Also note that x11-common now conflicts with xfs, so you may want to remove a ?FontPath to "unix/:7100".