-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:11:22 +0100 Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon 20 Aug 2012 at 11:46:37 +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > > > The Installation went OK, but the graphical XFCE-Desktop was not usable, because the > > x-server was not workable. I actually had to start the system with the > > yaboot-command-line 'Linux init 1' to get a usable VT, once lightdm was installed. > > Else, when trying to start the x-server, there was just pixel-mud displayed in the > > lower half of the screen, the system froze. > > I tried x-autoconfiguration with 'X -configure' in the /etc/X11/ directory in single > > user mode, but this did not change the situation, doing manual alterations to > > xorg.conf did not change the situation either. So I attach the xorg.conf-file, I > > tried, too. Probably this is going to be reported against the r128 x-video-driver. > > X-logfiles are going to be included in the repoert then, as soon as I tried more > > detailed manual X-configuration and hat a look at Xorg.0.log myself. There are > > several option that might work, contained in the autogenerated xorg.conf -file. > > It might also be worth a try, using the framebuffer-device instead of r128. > > This may not have anything to do with your problem but it caught my eye > in debian-user: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg00319.html O.K., ACK, maybe the r128-driver is outdated, at least it does not work 'out-of-the-box' on any machine, but it showed that this seems mainly due to the acceleration-functionality. I found a workable X-configuration and thus send my xorg.conf, dmsg.txt and Xorg.0.log in the attached archive called x-conf-dmsg.tar.bz2. Furthermore the severity of this bug is downgraded to 'minor'. Cheers Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlA1s10ACgkQ5+rBHyUt5wtHwACcC0qK6+M/JoolZ0FtQtGtA7Bk C2cAoJWpEkSxwYiQzKRq7/KdGk/jsbsF =7LEF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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