Bug#546836: Bug confirmed: Matrox G550 unusable under squeeze
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Michel Dänzer wrote:
If the X log file ends abruptly like that, there's usually more
information in the X server stderr output, which should be captured in
the gdm/kdm/... log file.
Ok, I will check the gdm logfile next time.
Finally, I put the original hard disk back in, upgraded Xorg again
to the squeeze version and the problem reappeared :-(
So, I have something on that disk that is causing trouble. I already
know it's not xorg.conf nor the kernel. And I have the same set of
xserver-* packages on the two systems.
Symptoms such as above are often caused by stale libraries in /usr/local
or so, resulting in unresolved symbols.
I checked in /usr/local and found nothing obvious (no old libraries
there), but this system is old, it was first installed in Debian potatoe
and upgraded all the way up to squeeze over the time.
The system that works fine was installed in lenny and upgraded to squeeze.
I also tried removing old files in /etc/X11/ (not present on the working
system) without success.
By the way, the problem is definitely not in the mga driver: I tried
the vesa driver and it crashed in exactly the same way. So, there's
a general problem with the X server from squeeze on this system.
--
Etienne Vogt.
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