Dan Ritter <[email protected]> writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Dan Ritter <[email protected]> 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-
I managed to get mate working after a fashion by installing mate-tweaks, then changing the window manager to marco nocompositor. So mate works, but there was nothing on the panel so I had to add a menu.
