Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

[Richmond <richmond@criptext.com>]

Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:

> Richmond wrote: 
>> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Richmond wrote: 
>> >> I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I
>> >> tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so:
> ...
>> >> What can I do? Perhaps use a different xserver. The display driver is
>> >> nouveau.
>> >
>> > I wouldn't expect that to segfault, but I also wouldn't expect
>> > it to work -- you did not authorize your non-root user to run in
>> > that X session.
>> 
>> It crashed. The errors on the console are several fatal errors from
>> mate-panel, marco, mate-session, and xterm. The xorg log shows a
>> segmentation fault but I cannot be sure when it happened as the date is
>> in an inhuman format.
>> 
>> I'll bet it is to do with desktop effects.
>> 
>> Here is the sources.list. There is nothing in sources.d. I don't
>
> Good, we're making progress. Time to chase down Greg's idea,
> which is that you have driver problems.
>
> Answer his questions about lspci and such, and check for the
> installation of
>
> firmware-misc-nonfree
>
> You probably need that for your graphics card, and it probably
> needs a full reboot after.
>
> -dsr-

I managed to get mate working after a fashion by installing mate-tweaks,
then changing the window manager to marco nocompositor. So mate works,
but there was nothing on the panel so I had to add a menu.