Re: X affecting console text color?? [solved]
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 22:34:04 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 21:09:34 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 14:27:54 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > > Op Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:39:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 14:10:47 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > > > > My console text has the default light gray color - until X is
> > > > > started.
> > > > >
> > > > > When going from X to the console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, the console
> > > > > foreground color has turned to dark gray, hardly readable on the
> > > > > black background.
> > > > > Even after logging out of X, back into the console, the console
> > > > > text remains dark gray.
> > > > > Only after restarting the computer, the default light gray text
> > > > > color has returned.
[...]
> $ grep '/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
>
> > > > You could try to downgrade to the previous version or test if the
> > > > vesa driver leads to the same problem.
>
> Indeed, with the vesa driver, the problem disappears.
>
> > Both ati_drv.so and radeon_drv.so are in xserver-xorg-video-ati, so
> > you could try to downgrade to the previous version of that package
> > (found in your package cache or at snapshot.debian.net).
>
> After removing the vesa driver from /etc/X11/xorg.conf I downgraded
> xserver-xorg-video-ati from 1:6.8.0-1 to 1:6.7.197-1 :
>
> # dpkg --force-downgrade -i xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.197-1_i386.deb
> # aptitude hold xserver-xorg-video-ati
>
> and indeed, this appears to be a solution.
>
> Now when I notice that a newer version of xserver-xorg-video-ati has
> moved to testing (which, among other places, I can see at
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati.html - thanks to
> Kelly Clowers) then I will do an
> 'aptitude unhold xserver-xorg-video-ati'
> and the usual 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'.
Do you know aptitude's "forbid-version" command? You can forbid upgrades
to specific versions of a package. Then you won't have to check the
packages.qa.d.o page to see if a still newer (hopefully fixed) version
is available. Aptitude will upgrade to a newer version normally, but it
will keep the forbidden version off your system (unless you manually
override this again).
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