# XSF / Backports for squeeze

Cyril Brulebois
`<kibi@debian.org>`

## Bird’s-eye view

If one forgets about libraries and clients, a whole X stack boils down to: the server itself, input and video drivers, libdrm, and mesa.

To keep things simple, the idea is to backport all of those to `squeeze` through `squeeze-backports`, along with some of the additional packages which might be involved (like `libxfont` or `x11proto-fixes-dev`).

The backports were prepared so that it’s possible to upgrade the `input-all` and `video-all` meta packages on `amd64` and `i386`. If specific drivers (maintained by the X Strike Force) are wanted, requesting them on the `debian-backports@` / `debian-x@` mailing lists should do the trick. For other drivers, please contact the relevant package maintainers.

## Instructions

The usual backports instructions apply. But let’s gather everything in a single place.

Add that to your `sources.list`:

    deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Update your cache:

    apt-get update

If you’re interested in just upgrading the usual `mesa` packages:

    apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx

If you want the whole stack, we should distinguish between two cases.

In the usual case, both the `xserver-xorg-input-all` and `xserver-xorg-video-all` meta packages were installed, and pulled a lot of packages, which should work for most users. Specifying a few packages to upgrade should pull everything from `squeeze-backports`.

    apt-get install -t squeeze-backports xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all
    apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx

In case only the needed packages were installed, like the `synaptics` input driver and the `intel` video driver, the following should be sufficient:

    apt-get install -t squeeze-backports xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-intel
    apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx

It is probably a very good idea to install the Linux kernel from `squeeze-backports` as well. It is even required for the `nouveau` video driver.