On 8/18/13, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > 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.
:) It was just a "sliver" :/ And another sliver: I think once I got it going (with the random restarts issue), I took to suspend/resume rather than restart for awhile. I think I was already on sid, so by "upgrade" for me it was simply "wait, find bug if possible, file bug otherwise, cross fingers, upgrade again"... >> 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. ACKnowledge. The OP ought to try to remember or discover what his 'upgrade' was. Especially with 'testing' still being early days AIUI. >> 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. ... Dear OP, do you know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ... my sliver of memory from ~6 or more years ago is not in any way definitive, of course. -- 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/caosgnsqjpavldl0mkf1zsyckpxkt2ckywso8-sbnh5xabcw...@mail.gmail.com
