On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Yes. The only sliver was "upgrade to sid, ...
Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. > or the latest xorg-driver Apparently it was working at some stage and it was an UPGRADE which CAUSED the OP's problem? So upgrading further without any knowledge of what is causing the problem can only exacerbate the problem. > you can lay hands on". > The fact that it happens before startx is run, is perhaps due to some > of the graphics driver stack now being in the Linux kernel. Right, and do we know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ... ? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130818091844.GG25001@tal