On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 14:37:35 +0100, Martin wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga > Version: 1:1.4.11.dfsg-4+squeeze1 > Severity: important > > When starting X from console with startx video changes to graphic mode, > but the picture on the screen is all messed up. I can not see anything > sane. Bottom half of screen is black, only upper half is used by X but > it is so messed up that I can not recognize anything where to click. > > The computer is actually working, so I can switch to console with > CTRL-ALT-F1. But at this time the screen is messed up on console too. > The screen is full of some random symbols [letters/puctuation marks] and > all those letter kind of dance [to me it seems like sync signal is bad]. > I can type some commands but and see that some characters on screen are > changing but it does not echo character that I type but some random > character. And command do get executed. I can for example type: > $ sudo reboot > and computer do reboot, but I can not see what I am typing. > > Basically at this point computer is not usable either in graphic mode or > on console. > > Just to make sure my graphic card or monitor are not dead I installed > Lenny again and all worked well. > > If I use 'vesa' as driver instead of 'mga' the graphical desktop shows OK > but it is not usable because the useage of CPU by X is 100% and it takes > ages to open any window [xterm or xclock for example]. > > For fastest fix that comes to mind now is to use driver from lenny. > Is it possible? Or can I download and recompile lennys driver to work > in squeeze? > Not really, you'd have to downgrade the whole X stack to lenny. Can you please attach X logs from both lenny and squeeze to this bug for comparison?
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