Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-10-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Strange, I am not sure what to do with this bug then. Understandable. > Will you have a chance to try the old CRT again? No - it's been junked (see below for why), that's why I replaced it. This might justify closing the bug as "hardware fault". > Are you sure the bug disappeared because you sw

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-10-04 Thread Brice Goglin
Edward Welbourne wrote: > Incidentally, this bug has become unreproducible since I switched from > using the old CRT to using a shiny new flat screen. > Strange, I am not sure what to do with this bug then. Will you have a chance to try the old CRT again? Are you sure the bug disappeared becaus

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-10-04 Thread Edward Welbourne
Incidentally, this bug has become unreproducible since I switched from using the old CRT to using a shiny new flat screen. Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-14 Thread Edward Welbourne
Interestingly, when aptitude fires up the console-graphical package configuration tool, during installation of new packages, it manages to put the OK selector where I *can* see it, even though aptitude itself fails to show me its last three lines. (For example, when asking me to hit return to cont

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi again Julien, Everone else went home, so I have a chance to break things^W^W experiment. Upon re-booting and actually checking what resize and $LINES say when the X server hasn't messed things up, I find that I've mis-described this bug. The normal state does in fact have 28 lines; when the X

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 17:31:34 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > >> Section "Device" > >>Identifier "Intel 82915G/GV/910GL" > >>Driver "vesa" > >>BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > >> EndSection > >> > > Did you try the "i810" driver instead of "vesa"? > > Also, do you use a

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-10 Thread Edward Welbourne
>> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Intel 82915G/GV/910GL" >> Driver "vesa" >> BusID "PCI:0:2:0" >> EndSection >> > Did you try the "i810" driver instead of "vesa"? > Also, do you use a fb console? This is the point where I should point out that I am not a sy

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 16:18:03 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Please send the output of /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-core/script 3>&1 > > to this bug. > > Output follows. > I'll attempt the startx experiment when I'm a little less busy (it > invo

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-09 Thread Julien Cristau
severity 423014 normal tag 423014 - security # reassigning to the server pending further information reassign 423014 xserver-xorg-core kthxbye On Wed, May 9, 2007 at 15:00:19 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > When I start up xdm, the console starts to imagine that there are > three more lines ava

Bug#423014: console's last three lines become inaccessible once xdm start up

2007-05-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.4-3 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: breaks unrelated software When I start up xdm, the console starts to imagine that there are three more lines available than actually exist. The console actually has 25 lines; but the console ttys think it has 28 lin