Re: A strange new phenomena
Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:
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>> Right, and do we know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ...
>
> Dear OP, do you know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc.
> ... my sliver of memory from ~6 or more years ago is not in any way
> definitive, of course.
>From lspci -vk
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36
[GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Kernel:
uname -r
3.0.0-1-686-pae
It looks like I have just about every video driver known to man
installed for some reason unknown to me. I wondered about that a time
or two but not enough to dig into it. But know that this has been
like this long before the upgrade:
aptitude search ^x|grep ^i
i A xscreensaver-data - data files to be shared among screensaver
i A xserver-common - common files used by various X servers
i xserver-xorg - X.Org X server
i A xserver-xorg-core - Xorg X server - core server
i A xserver-xorg-input-all - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
i A xserver-xorg-input-evdev - X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
i A xserver-xorg-input-mouse - X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
i A xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
i A xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse - X.Org X server -- VMMouse input driver to
i A xserver-xorg-input-wacom - X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-apm - X.Org X server -- APM display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-ark - X.Org X server -- ark display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver w
i A xserver-xorg-video-chips - X.Org X server -- Chips display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-cirrus - X.Org X server -- Cirrus display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-fbdev - X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-geode - X.Org X server -- Geode GX2/LX display dri
i A xserver-xorg-video-i128 - X.Org X server -- i128 display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-i740 - X.Org X server -- i740 display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-intel - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display
i A xserver-xorg-video-mach64 - X.Org X server -- ATI Mach64 display drive
i A xserver-xorg-video-mga - X.Org X server -- MGA display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-neomagic - X.Org X server -- Neomagic display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-openchrome - X.Org X server -- VIA display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-r128 - X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display d
i A xserver-xorg-video-rendition - X.Org X server -- Rendition display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-s3 - X.Org X server -- legacy S3 display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-s3virge - X.Org X server -- S3 ViRGE display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-savage - X.Org X server -- Savage display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotio - X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion display dr
i A xserver-xorg-video-sis - X.Org X server -- SiS display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-sisusb - X.Org X server -- SiS USB display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-tdfx - X.Org X server -- tdfx display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-trident - X.Org X server -- Trident display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-tseng - X.Org X server -- Tseng display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa - X.Org X server -- VESA display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-vmware - X.Org X server -- VMware display driver
i A xserver-xorg-video-voodoo - X.Org X server -- Voodoo display driver
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