How do I install an earlier version of fgrlx-driver in Debian?

[aniruddha]

I would like to install a previous fglrx driver since the latest two don't work with Wine. In the testing repo there is only one version to be found (1:8-6-2). Therefor I added the stable repo, and now I can also install fglrx 8.28.8.

However when I try to install the stable driver using "Force Version" in Synaptic it wants to remove all xorg files. Therefor I wonder how I should install older packages in Debian.

Is there a equivalent to Gentoo's package.mask?

[alexforcefive]

you can find the older drivers at http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ous-linux.html

you just run the script to install. Uninstall the current drivers first, though (it's easy to do with envy)

[Kano]

http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

run that script with

-v 8-5

option.

[aniruddha]

First of all thanks for the help! However I was more looking for a solution within the Debian framework instead of a a workaround. For sure it should be possible to 'blacklist' certain packages? And where did all the previous fglrx packages go? Ar they removed from the repo? Or retained in unstable?

[Kano]

My script works for Debian and Ubuntu. You can be sure it is correct.

[aniruddha]

My script works for Debian and Ubuntu. You can be sure it is correct.

That's what I assumed ^^. However by using your script I don't learn anything abot the working of Debian. This means next time a similar problem arises with another package I still haven't learned how to fix it.

There are 2 possibilities:

1 It isn't possible to install another fglrx version in Debian, and your script is the only way to solve this.

2 It is possible to blacklist software in Debian (much like package.mask in Gentoo).

What I don't understand is why I only find two version of the ATI drivers (stable & testing) in the repos. What happened with the other drivers? Are these discarded?

[aniruddha]

Ok, Ik have the folowing lines in my /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: fglrx-driver
Pin: version  8.28.8-4
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: xserver-xorg
Pin: version  1:7.1.0-19
Pin-Priority: 1000

Unfortunately I hit the following problem when trying to install fglrx-drivers:

  libxi6: Depends: x11-common but it is not installable
  xfonts-encodings: Depends: x11-common but it is not installable
  libxt6: PreDepends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) but it is not installable
  libxext6: Depends: x11-common but it is not installable
open: 9907; closed: 4864; defer: 0; conflict:

Edit:
I just checked, but it appears that Debian only has two versions of fglrx available. What happened with each monthly version?

Package fglrx-driver

    * sarge-backports (x11): Display driver for the ATI graphics accelerators [non-free]
      8.23.7-0bpo1 [backports]: i386
    * etch (stable) (x11): display driver for the ATI graphics accelerators [non-free]
      8.28.8-4: amd64 i386
    * etch-backports (x11): non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver [non-free]
      8.47.3-3~bpo40+1 [backports]: amd64 i386
    * lenny (testing) (x11): non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver [non-free]
      1:8-6-2: amd64 i386
    * sid (unstable) (x11): non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver [non-free]
      1:8-6-2: amd64 i386
    * experimental (x11): non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver [non-free]
      1:8-7-1: amd64[/

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