Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:17:09 -0400
>...So, a bug filing is apparently needed. I'd like you to file it
OK, with great trepidation I've sent a report to the Debian Bug
Tracking System, and received automatic acknowledgement of it as
Bug#859423. Those interested should follow pr
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Tony Stoneley wrote:
>
> A severely trimmed version of /var/log/Xorg.0.log follows. The whole
> affair is 616 lines, which seems excessive for an initial posting.
> This is with the fully up-to-date testing distribution, in particular
> with xserver-xorg-video-mga
I uninstalled tdm-trinity, kept iomem=relaxed on cmdline, blacklisted mga, and
rebuilt initrd. That got Xorg to run TDE and IcwWM via startx. Then I
reinstalled tdm-trinity, and its greeter now behaves as expected.
--
"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant
words are persuasive
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-31 22:20 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400
It may be time for you to ask for help from the devs, using the
debian-devel mailing list or one of the freedesktop.org Xorg mailing
lists, or by filing a Debian bug.
Yes, perhaps, i
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400
>Your goal is to boot without Plymouth and without framebuffer, in
>80x25 mode, to give Xorg the best possible chance to work as expect.
>If Plymouth is installed, purge it.
>
>To proceed, hit the e key when the Grub menu appears, then remove
Felix Miata composed on 2017-03-31 02:22 (UTC-0400):
[xserver-xorg-video-mga is a user-space graphics driver]
...
If all the above doesn't help, repeat it, but append "iomem=relaxed" to the line
that included video and/or vesa and/or vga...
This showed up on vtty when I did dist-upgrade from je
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-30 17:12 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:44:01 -0400
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html
Did you try other things suggested in that thread or the openSUSE bug
referenced there
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_b
Felix Miata wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:44:01 -0400
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html
>Did you try other things suggested in that thread or the openSUSE bug
>referenced there
>https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004453 ?
To be honest, I'm way out of my dept
I tried to net install Stretch to my MGA550 machine, but kept getting segfaults
trying to configure network. So I restored a backup image of Jessie from another
machine to my MGA550 machine. It worked normally, so I dist-upgraded it to
Stretch on vtty 3. When done, I logged into :1 using startx
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 20:28 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata suggested
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html
Thanks, Felix, but I had already seen that and tried it, to no great
effect. I should have said so. Except that I see the log I filed
doesn't say so. Here is
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:29:52 +0200
>is the system totally dead or just the display? Can you ping (or even
>ssh) your box? In case you have no network, the effort of setting one
>up (locally) might well pay off.
I wish I could, but alas I only have one PC here, albeit on a sm
Felix Miata suggested
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00895.html
Thanks, Felix, but I had already seen that and tried it, to no great
effect. I should have said so. Except that I see the log I filed
doesn't say so. Here is (part of) one that does, and fails similarly-
[ 6651.505]
Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 14:36 (UTC+0100):
I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an
elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged
directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into
a brick wall with the xserver. When s
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:36:55PM +0100, Tony Stoneley wrote:
> I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an
> elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged
> directly into the motherboard, using the mga drive
I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an
elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged
directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into
a brick wall with the xserver. When started, eg with startx, the
system immediately freezes and
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