Bug#190270: xserver brings up black screen
Package: xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common
Version: 4.2.1-6
After doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to unstable, the new xfree86 packages
wreaked havoc on my system. After restarting gdm the video got flaky. I had
horizontal bands (very thin and multicolored) appearing anytime part of the
screen was redrawn. After rebooting the entire system I got nothing but a black
login screen with a mouse pointer (outlined in white) and some artifacts at the
top of the screen. I downgraded back down to testing (version 4.2.1-3) and
everything works fine now.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/unstable, kernel 2.4.20 (custom),
libc6 2.1.3-17, and all other xfree86 related packages are version 4.2.1-6
This is the info on my video card from 'lspci -vv'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 248 (1000ns min, 63750ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0
Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans-
64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
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