Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 17:20 (UTC-0500): The Intel package driver was already purged from my system. I tried reinstalling it to no use. Purged xwayland, too (which I don't use but nevertheless installed). No help. I've also checked dmesg, messages, Xorg.0.log & syslog and syslog an

Re: Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
The Intel package driver was already purged from my system. I tried reinstalling it to no use. Purged xwayland, too (which I don't use but nevertheless installed). No help. I've also checked dmesg, messages, Xorg.0.log & syslog and syslog and found nothing out of the ordinary in those logs. It just

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 12:14 (UTC-0500): Thank you for the references, Felix. Unfortunately, nothing you sent is applicable because SDDM doesn't even start in the first place. Computer goes unresponsive when it Which Intel chipset/CPU model do you have? Skylake? Lotsa troubles

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 12:52 (UTC-0500): Thank you, Hans. My laptop has an Intel chipset, so nvidia doesn't apply. I think the recommended driver for my chipset is the framebuffer or vesa device, but I may try reinstalling the Intel driver to see if that fixes it. Maybe the appro

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you, Hans. My laptop has an Intel chipset, so nvidia doesn't apply. I think the recommended driver for my chipset is the framebuffer or vesa device, but I may try reinstalling the Intel driver to see if that fixes it. On 13 December 2016 at 12:37, Hans wrote: > Note, that SDDM does not work

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Hans
Note, that SDDM does not work with the proprietrary nvidia drivers. This maybe will not be fixed, as this behavior is documented since almost a year. Hans

Re: Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for the references, Felix. Unfortunately, nothing you sent is applicable because SDDM doesn't even start in the first place. Computer goes unresponsive when it tries to start X and then I have to force shut down. I've been able to start - just - by booting into multi-user.target and mask

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi, I personnaly do not have particular problems running Stretch on a Gnome desktop computer and a LXDE laptop, from two years now. Just be careful during updates to not remove important packages because of dependencies, but that's all. But do not use sid or testing on a computer that should nev

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 04:46 (UTC-0500): on Sunday I upgraded the xserver and wayland packages to their current testing version. Now my computer freezes or hangs when it tries to start KDE/SDDM. Can't switch into consoles and the only option is to hard power off. Seems to be a

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
I'd advise against running testing if you want stability. I get a lot of breakages on my Stretch laptop with routine upgrades. When I look into them, a number of breakages seem due to transitions to newer library platforms where all the kinks haven't been worked out yet. Other packages simply have

Re: current testing (etch) netinst iso

2006-03-01 Thread noc ops
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 11:07, noc ops wrote: > >>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >> >>is the above link correct or should i be looking elsewhere? > > > This is something you could have answered with Google. > http://cdimage.debian.org/ --

Re: current testing (etch) netinst iso

2006-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 11:07, noc ops wrote: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > is the above link correct or should i be looking elsewhere? This is something you could have answered with Google. http://cdimage.debian.org/ -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk):