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I’m happy to report Ubuntu’s Xorg works wonderfully on Debian Sid. Whats that I hear? You want to run it too? Good.

Please note: This may not work on all systems, or you may need to replace more .debs than I’ve listed, you have been warned!

1) Hop over to here and grab the following packages…

libfs6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
libx11-6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
libxau6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
libxdmcp6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
libxxf86vm1_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
x-window-system-core_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
xlibmesa-dri_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
xlibmesa-gl_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
xlibmesa-glu_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
xorg-common_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_all.deb
xserver-common_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
xserver-xorg_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb
xutils_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb

… and issue the command dpkg -i libfs6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb libx11-6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb libxau6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb libxdmcp6_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb x-window-system-core_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb xlibmesa-dri_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb xlibmesa-gl_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb xorg-common_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_all.deb xserver-common_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb xserver-xorg_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb xutils_6.8.1-1ubuntu10_i386.deb which will uninstall XFree86 and install Xorg.

2) After thats done, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to build a new xorg.conf, and then download this and put it in /etc/init.d/ to replace the version already there.

3) Do rm /etc/X11/X then ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg /etc/X11/X

4) dpkg --purge xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common

And thats it. Restart X, and all should be working fine.