Richmond wrote: > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes: > > > Richmond wrote: > >> I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I > >> tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: ... > >> What can I do? Perhaps use a different xserver. The display driver is > >> nouveau. > > > > I wouldn't expect that to segfault, but I also wouldn't expect > > it to work -- you did not authorize your non-root user to run in > > that X session. > > It crashed. The errors on the console are several fatal errors from > mate-panel, marco, mate-session, and xterm. The xorg log shows a > segmentation fault but I cannot be sure when it happened as the date is > in an inhuman format. > > I'll bet it is to do with desktop effects. > > Here is the sources.list. There is nothing in sources.d. I don't
Good, we're making progress. Time to chase down Greg's idea, which is that you have driver problems. Answer his questions about lspci and such, and check for the installation of firmware-misc-nonfree You probably need that for your graphics card, and it probably needs a full reboot after. -dsr-
