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hack the planetvideo subsystem

Well shit, it's been about 18 months since my last post. Here's one that'll bore you!

In Debian Wheezy, xorg is now version 7.6 and xserver-xorg-core is version 1.11. With this update comes an increment to the xorg input ABI and the xorg video ABI.

That's great unless you're using a binary driver that hasn't been updated to work with the ABI (NVidia legacy, I'm looking at you). In my case, I've got a Quadro FX 3000 in one of my boxes, and it still needs the 173.xx driver. What to do?

My solution is a hack, plain and simple: downgrade xserver-xorg-core to 1.10 without downgrading anything else. However, you have to be a little tricky about this because otherwise apt will complain that your X install is broken. Here's what you do:

• Grab xserver-xorg-core_1.10.4-1ubuntu5 from the Ubuntu pool (amd64, i386) (local copies: amd64, i386).

• mkdir /tmp/xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-really1.10
  dpkg-deb -R xserver-xorg-core_1.10.4-1ubuntu5_*.deb /tmp/xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-really1.10
  cd /tmp/xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-really1.10/DEBIAN/
  sed 's/Version: 2:1.10.4-1ubuntu5/Version: 2:1.11.4-really1.10/; s/Provides: xorg-input-abi-12, xorg-video-abi-10/Provides: xorg-input-abi-12, xorg-video-abi-10, xorg-input-abi-13, xorg-video-abi-11/;' control > control.new
  mv control.new control
  cd /tmp
  dpkg-deb --build xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-really1.10
  dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-really1.10.deb
  echo xserver-xorg-core hold | dpkg --set-selections
  

• Install the legacy driver of your choice.
• Enjoy.

Note that we've held the package at its present version. You will need to manually undo this (or just explicitly apt-get install xserver-xorg-core) if you want to upgrade later.

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