Your message dated Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:52:55 +0200 with message-id <201308311253.30231.holger@layer-acht.org> and subject line dealing with old installation-reports has caused the Debian Bug report #694777, regarding Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 694777: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694777 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable
- From: Lou Poppler <lwp@mail.msen.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:08:29 -0500 (EST)
- Message-id: <20121130020946.D74412@shell.msen.com>
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64.netinst Date: Nov 28, 2012, 01:00 UTC Machine: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 755 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz Memory: 4 GBPartitions: root@ivanovad:/var/log# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdaDisk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa62a3850 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 244337985 122167969 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 244338688 254103551 4882432 83 Linux /dev/sda3 254103552 449415167 97655808 83 Linux /dev/sda4 449415168 488396799 19490816 82 Linux swap / Solaris root@ivanovad:/var/log# df -Tl Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 96121612 3608508 87630316 4% / udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 392984 656 392328 1% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/7712d588-c97c-4890-a3b1-3d8dfacf1624 ext4 96121612 3608508 87630316 4% / tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs tmpfs 4684120 72 4684048 1% /run/shm /dev/sda2 ext4 4805760 158140 4403500 4% /boot Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): (from running system) root@ivanovad:/var/log# lspci -knn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29b0] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex 755 [1028:0211] 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29b1] (rev 02) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:03.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express MEI Controller [8086:29b4] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex 755 [1028:0211] 00:03.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express PT IDER Controller [8086:29b6] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: ata_generic 00:03.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Serial KT Controller [8086:29b7] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: serial 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10bd] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: e1000e 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 02) Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801IO (ICH9DO) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2914] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2922] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: ahci 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0211] Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1] Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02] Kernel driver in use: radeon System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Overall install: [O] Comments/Problems: Setup as dual-boot with existing Windoze 7. Windows still works as well as ever when booted via GRUB. However, booting into the new wheezy gives an unreadable display. The BIOS and GRUB-select screens come up OK after boot, in text mode. After wheezy is selected, there appear a few lines of text status, which disappear very quickly. They are replaced by a scrunched display of B/W digital hash, approx 50% of screen area, not legible at all. After maybe 10 or 20 seconds this disappears, and the screen is blank. I tried to access a text console, via CTRL-ALT-F1 which resulted in a return of the B/W digital hash, but nothing readable. CTRL-ALT-F7 brought me back to the blank screen. Luckily, I can SSH to the machine just fine from elsewhere, and look at stuff, and run aptitude and shutdown, etc. The video card is a Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] Various online research brings me to http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo which looks like I should install some non-free firmware for this card. I find this in the running dmesg: root@ivanovad:/var/log# dmesg |grep -i firmware [ 8.322395] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV610_pfp.bin" [ 8.322442] [drm:r600_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! I put up 3 of the installer logfiles and an Xorg log from the running system here: http://myweb.cableone.net/ytpoppler/hardware-summary http://myweb.cableone.net/ytpoppler/status http://myweb.cableone.net/ytpoppler/syslog http://myweb.cableone.net/ytpoppler/Xorg.0.log
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- Subject: dealing with old installation-reports
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:52:55 +0200
- Message-id: <201308311253.30231.holger@layer-acht.org>
Hi, thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated. I read through all the bugs mentioned here (and I'm sure they were read by several people at the time they were submitted) and am closing them now as/if - they (finally) indicated success and/or - I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in Wheezy and/or - they only contained very little information and/or - they contained user errors and/or - they were caused by broken hardware and/or - they have been from a development phase where things were not stable and/or - they are quite old (and thus likely fixed today) and/or - moreinfo was asked and not given or - they are wishlist but rather special + exotic and not have been acted on for years. (See http://blog.liw.fi/posts/wishlist-bugs/ why it's often useful to close wishlist bugs.) If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply (it's easy to reopen and I'll do if requested) or just file a new one - thats often better, as the bug log will be clearer and shorter and not contain cruft. cheers, HolgerAttachment: signature.asc
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