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Re: i915: wheezy / jessie freeze under X



On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Ralf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Three days ago wheezy began to freeze at the login prompt: no keyboard
> and often no mouse, it's a i915 laptop from asus.
> 
> xorg.log loads the intel sandy bridge driver correctly, also
> other stuff like vesa_drv et fbdev_drv. AT the end the server seems to
> fail going on, last message seen is: "xf86OpenConsole: cannot open
> /dev/tty0
> (No such file or directory)".
> 
> but tty0 exists, chmod 755 helps to launch X in recovery mode, but not
> under int2, then keyboard disappears.

Could you explain this a litte better? Which file did you chmod, and how
do you launch X in recovery mode?

> I was using wheezy, plus deb-multimedia & mozilla-esr.
> I upgraded and dist-upgraded to jessie, but the issue remains.
> Default amd64 kernel config.

What is the output of:
root@tal:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
root@tal:~# ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
root@tal:~# apt-cache policy

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