[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#642703: fglrx: drop-down menus taking a long time to render

[Jonathan Nieder]

Jack Saunders wrote:

> I've just applied the latest update for Debian Wheezy KDE.  This has borked
> the desktop entirely. The update included alternative glx stuff. Is there an
> apt command to safely downgrade the system?

One can downgrade individual packages with

	apt-get install package=version

but the version you are downgrading to will need to be available from
a repository listed in sources.list.  /var/log/dpkg.log and
/var/log/apt/history.log list the upgrades you've performed recently,
and http://snapshot.debian.org/ can be useful for grabbing older
packages.

[...]
> Would it be more useful to you if I stick with this KDE version and try to
> get it back on the rails, or is there any sense in me deleting this version
> and going for the Gnome one instead?

My (selfish and generic) advice is to get the driver problem to happen
again and then change as little as possible.  It should be possible to
change one variable at a time so it is more obvious which component is
responsible for any particular change in behavior you observe.

> Let me know what you think

Hope that helps, and sorry for the fuss,
Jonathan