Re: [Lubuntu] Some PC's or LTSP clients stall during boot at a blank, black screen

2012-12-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Try each of the following: 1. Erase /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and reboot. If the above does not work, 2. Install linux-firmware-nonfree package, and reboot. If the above does not work, 3. Uninstall all the video driver packages you do not need, leave only the one(s) that you need, and reboot. On

Re: [Lubuntu] Some PC's or LTSP clients stall during boot at a blank, black screen

2012-12-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Try each of the following: 1. Erase /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and reboot. If the above does not work, 2. Install linux-firmware-nonfree package, and reboot. If the above does not work, 3. Uninstall all the video driver packages you do not need, leave only the one(s) that you need, and reboot.

Re: [Lubuntu] Some PC's or LTSP clients stall during boot at a blank, black screen

2012-12-07 Thread John Hupp
An expanded list of what works and doesn't work for me (not double-tested, and where not specified I'm listing chips rather than card mfr/model): Worked: - PCI Matrox Millennium II MGA 2164W (PCI card) - Intel 82810E (integrated) - An ATI-based AGP card sold as a MIC E-G012-02-1214(B) - ATI Rag

Re: [Lubuntu] Some PC's or LTSP clients stall during boot at a blank, black screen

2012-12-07 Thread John Hupp
To give my supposition a bit more weight, I removed the discrete video card from a working Lubuntu 12.10 machine and installed it in the machine that fails both as a client and a standalone-with-Live-CD. It then successfully booted the Live CD. The card that worked was an old PCI Matrox Mille

[Lubuntu] Some PC's or LTSP clients stall during boot at a blank, black screen

2012-12-07 Thread John Hupp
Read on about Lubuntu 12.10 after this intro: I have been troubleshooting a behavior in which many LTSP clients on my Lubuntu 12.10 LTSP server fail to boot. They stall after the Lubuntu splash screen at a blank, black screen. But one of the PC's that fails to boot as an LTSP client also * has

Re: Compositing window manager in Lubuntu

2012-12-07 Thread Axel Filmore
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:14:11 -0500 matt davis wrote: If anyone is interested to check > compton out: > > https://github.com/chjj/compton#readme > > There's some binaries available from Lubuntu's blog : http://lubuntublog.blogspot.fr/2012/09/meet-compton.html Tested under Quantal Quetzal, wor