[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#457150: Downgrading Xorg to testing fixes this

[Phil Dibowitz]

I downgraded xorg to testing to see if that would be a work around, and it
did. I downgraded all of the following packages:

I did, basically:

for i in `dpkg -l | egrep 'xserver|xorg' | awk '{print $2}'`; do echo
$i/testing; done > /tmp/tout && apt-get install `cat /tmp/tout`

Which removes nvidia-glx. I then grabbed the latest one and force-installed it:

dpkg --force-all -i nvidia...

Which is REALLY ugly, but it claims dependence on the newer xorg, and I
didn't feel like rebuilding with newer dependencies just for a test.

This works, I'm back on dual-display with Nvidia.

So it's something in the newer xorg and nvidia.
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