Michael Fothergill wrote: > I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to > search for within it > > I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file: > > http://paste.ubuntu.com/11731677/ Looking only at entries related to the xserver and filtering out status and configure lines I see this much smaller summary: 2015-06-05 17:45:33 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-all:amd64 1:7.7+7 1:7.7+9 2015-06-05 17:45:35 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-evdev:amd64 1:2.9.0-2 1:2.9.2-1 2015-06-05 17:45:35 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse:amd64 1:13.0.0-1+b3 1:13.0.99-1 2015-06-05 17:45:36 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:amd64 1.8.1-1 1.8.2-1 2015-06-05 17:45:36 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-all:amd64 1:7.7+7 1:7.7+9 2015-06-05 17:45:38 upgrade xserver-xorg:amd64 1:7.7+7 1:7.7+9 2015-06-05 17:45:50 upgrade x11-xserver-utils:amd64 7.7+3+b1 7.7+4 2015-06-05 17:49:29 upgrade xserver-common:all 2:1.16.4-1 2:1.17.1-2 2015-06-05 17:56:40 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-r128:amd64 6.9.2-1+b2 6.10.0-1 2015-06-05 17:56:40 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-mach64:amd64 6.9.4-2 6.9.5-1 2015-06-05 17:56:41 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-radeon:amd64 1:7.5.0-1 1:7.5.0-1+b1 2015-06-05 17:56:41 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-ati:amd64 1:7.5.0-1 1:7.5.0-1+b1 2015-06-05 17:56:42 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-tdfx:amd64 1:1.4.5-1+b2 1:1.4.6-1+b1 2015-06-05 17:56:42 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-cirrus:amd64 1:1.5.2-2+b1 1:1.5.3-1 2015-06-05 17:56:43 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-vesa:amd64 1:2.3.3-1+b3 1:2.3.3-1+b4 2015-06-05 17:56:46 remove xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion:amd64 1:1.7.7-2+b2 <none> 2015-06-05 17:56:47 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-trident:amd64 1:1.3.6-2+b2 1:1.3.7-1+b1 2015-06-05 17:56:47 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-vmware:amd64 1:13.0.2-3.1 1:13.1.0-2 2015-06-05 17:56:48 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-neomagic:amd64 1:1.2.8-1+b2 1:1.2.9-1 2015-06-05 17:56:48 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-openchrome:amd64 1:0.3.3-1+b2 1:0.3.3-1+b3 2015-06-05 17:56:49 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-mga:amd64 1:1.6.3-2+b1 1:1.6.4-1+b1 2015-06-05 17:56:49 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-savage:amd64 1:2.3.7-2+b2 1:2.3.8-1 2015-06-05 17:56:50 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-fbdev:amd64 1:0.4.4-1+b2 1:0.4.4-1+b3 2015-06-05 17:56:51 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:amd64 1:1.0.11-1 1:1.0.11-1+b1 2015-06-05 17:56:51 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-qxl:amd64 0.1.1-2+b1 0.1.4-1 2015-06-05 17:56:52 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-intel:amd64 2:2.21.15-2+b2 2:2.99.917-1 2015-06-05 17:56:52 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-sisusb:amd64 1:0.9.6-2+b2 1:0.9.6-2+b3 2015-06-05 17:56:54 remove xserver-xorg-video-modesetting:amd64 0.9.0-1+b1 <none> 2015-06-05 17:56:55 upgrade xserver-xorg-core:amd64 2:1.16.4-1 2:1.17.1-2 2015-06-08 20:44:32 upgrade xserver-xorg:amd64 1:7.7+9 1:7.7+9 2015-06-16 18:10:25 upgrade xserver-xorg:amd64 1:7.7+9 1:7.7+9 The only two removals as suggested by your description: > I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did > aptitude safe-upgrade. > > It worked OK or so it seemed. > > But then I decided to try aptitude dist-upgrade afterward. The only two removals are xserver-xorg-video-modesetting and xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion. I wouldn't expect either of those to negatively affect your radeon driver. I think it must be something else. I know not what. I am at the limit of my information here. Sorry. I don't recall you saying what graphics hardware you have but I think it is a radeon? What is your lspci entry for it? lspci | grep VGA Bob
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