Re: ...

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Thomas McAtee Jr wrote:
> For some reason unable to file a bug report. Tried under kernel and the
> Linux Image as well.
>
> Here is my issue. I'm using Debian Testing Mate and a couple days ago I
> did my update/upgrades. I received the new Linux Image 5.6.0.1. After I
> did the update/upgrade I also did the dist-upgrade as well like I
> usually do.
>
> I rebooted the system When I logged into the latest Image everything was
> flickering. I would try to open something and it would constantly
> flicker on me. I would have trouble trying to make anything out at all
> on the screen. Everything I tried to open was the very same way. I tried
> to do a report on the 5.6.0.1 in tty but was unable to send it. The
> report did a save to the /var/temp. I clicked on it to make sure all was
> well but it was a blank page. So at the moment I'm having to go back to
> the older Linux Image  I was using prior to this new one.
>
> This was the only way I could let you know about what's going on with
> the latest Linux Image on my system. I using amd64.  I tried to get as
> much information as I could for you but if you are needing more please
> let me know. Again I'm having to use the older Linux Image at this time.
>
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
> Thomas McAtee
>
> annie-buns@Daughter-of-Venus:~$ dpkg --list | grep linux-image
> rc  linux-image-5.4.0-4-amd64            
> 5.4.19-1                        amd64        Linux 5.4 for 64-bit PCs
> (signed)
> ii  linux-image-5.5.0-1-amd64            
> 5.5.13-2                        amd64        Linux 5.5 for 64-bit PCs
> (signed)
> ii  linux-image-5.5.0-2-amd64            
> 5.5.17-1                        amd64        Linux 5.5 for 64-bit PCs
> (signed)
> ii  linux-image-5.6.0-1-amd64            
> 5.6.7-1                         amd64        Linux 5.6 for 64-bit PCs
> (signed)
> ii  linux-image-amd64                    
> 5.6.7-1                         amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs
> (meta-package)
> annie-buns@Daughter-of-Venus:~$
>
>
> The only difference in the following is the Image version because I'm
> having to use the older image.

  i'm not seeing any of that, but also i am not 
using an NVIDIA GPU.


  all ok here, MATE desktop on testing:

Linux ant 5.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.6.7-1 (2020-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

>
>               `"""            CPU: Intel Pentium D 2.80GHz (2) @ 2.800GHz
>                               GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
>                               Memory: 1191MiB / 3499MiB


  songbird