Bug#689748: More info, another backtrace

2013-01-12 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, On January 12, 2013, after an update (that upgraded dozens of kde libraries) and a reboot, I was quickly paging through a pdf document with evince and the system locked up again. After a hard power-off (holding the power button down for 5-10 seconds - the only way to regain access)

Bug#689748: More info: glx failed, new Xorg.0.log

2013-01-16 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, As of January 15, 2013, with a totally up-to-date wheezy system, tried to run openscad and it didn't work Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on

Bug#689748: More info: "unknown LVDS configuration bits, please report"

2013-02-02 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, Just noticed, on reboot after a lock up, the message in the subject line. Looking back at the original bug report, dmesg data was included by reportbug, but it was garbled (no new lines) so might have escaped notice. This is the complete line, with the 2 previous ones: [5.72306

Bug#689748: More info, lock-ups sometimes not as severe

2013-02-23 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, Something has changed after the latest upgrade of the nouveau driver. Whereas before the machine wouldn't even turn off unless the power button was held for about 10 seconds, it is now the case that (sometimes) a quick press of the off button is caught and the machine shuts down clea

Bug#689748: More info nouveau.noaccel=1 makes it much worse.

2013-03-11 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, With the system updated today (03/09/13), standard wheezy kernel, with /etc/default/grub changed as follows: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nouveau.noaccel=1" and after running update-grub, the screens became totally unreadable. Both the main display and the secondary screen con

Bug#689748: Additional info, another backtrace.

2012-10-08 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello, More symptoms: When an application puts out text to the console (in my case fsck on a usb drive reporting I/O errors) random dots appear, sometimes all over the screen. Sometimes, the text on the screen is totally unreadable. Shifting consoles (ctl-alt-Fn) redraws the screen and the text

Bug#689748: More info, sid dbg package.

2012-10-08 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello, Per this page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#How_do_I_backport_a_sid_package_to_testing_or_stable.3F I did the following: added deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list then: apt-get update apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-

Bug#689748: More info

2012-12-13 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I haven't been able to continue testing for the last few weeks. I recently did an upgrade where about 500 packages were updated, including xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and the kernel. Something has been fixed as the problem is now not repeatabl

Bug#689748: More info

2012-12-21 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, As of December 21, 2012, with wheezy updated just now, the following still occurs: Moving any window (click on the title bar and drag) locks up the system instantly. As I currently have no other machines connected to a local network, I can't get in through ssh. All I can do is a h

Bug#689748: More info

2012-12-27 Thread The Eclectic One
Hello again, As of December 26, 2012, with up-to-the-minute wheezy, installed xtide, which is available in a wheezy package. It has the same illegible font problem as gbuffy (as reported in the previous bug report addendum). So, this is not a gbuffy or old library problem... Any further test a

Bug#510178: xserver-xorg: xserver crashes on exit (with nvidia binary driver)

2008-12-29 Thread The Eclectic One
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+18 Severity: important When logging off, the server crashes and a kdm restart is necessary to get back the kdm screen. The options specific to the nvidia driver present in the xorg.conf file used to work in Etch and Sarge. The nvidia driver used is the nvidia