Tony Stoneley composed on 2017-03-29 14:36 (UTC+0100):
I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into a brick wall with the xserver. When started, eg with startx, the system immediately freezes and the only escape seems to be reboot. In particular ctrl-alt-Fn has no effect in this state, which makes diagnosis tricky. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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