Bug#480869: xserver-xorg: xserver starts with shaded virtual screens

[Petri Kaurinkoski <Petri.Kaurinkoski@iki.fi>]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 18:41 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 2008, at 23:01, Brice Goglin wrote:
> >
> >> Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
> >>> Package: xserver-xorg
> >>> Version: 1:7.3+10
> >>> Severity: important
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> With the most recent xserver-xorg package the X seems to work OK, but
> >>> the
> >>> associated virtual screens do something strange: they changed to be
> >>> shaded
> >>> (I can not come up with a better description) while the X-window
> >>> behaves
> >>> as
> >>> previously. The interesting part here is that when the system boots,
> >>> the
> >>> text is clear white text on black background, but after Xserver is
> >>> started,
> >>> the virtual screens go shaded. The texts are printed as expected, but
> >>> they
> >>> are hardly readable: it is as if a filter or curtain was drawn on to of
> >>> the
> >>> screen. Another way to describe this behaviour is to say that the
> >>> brightness of the screen is turned to minimum.
> >>>
> >>> I think this is an important issue, because it almost renders all of
> >>> the
> >>> virtual screens unusable.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is it better with the latest xserver-xorg-video-ati and
> >> xserver-xorg-core from unstable?
> >>
> >> Brice
> >
> > I tried to install the versions from unstable, but after tehy were in,
> > X would not start at all.
> 
> do you have the corresponding log?
> 
> Brice

Unfortunately not anymore. The main complaint was about no screens being
defined. I started to re-install the unstable versions, and while doing
it, I realized the warnings about not configuring the
xserver-xorg-video-ati package due to unsatisfied dependencies. After
that it is obvious X will not start, so I did not redo the test
installation.

If restoring the package state was easily accomplished, I might like to
do experiments like that, but now I have feeling of uncertainty about
whether I can fully restore the package installation status or not.

Best regards,

Petri

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 Petri Kaurinkoski <Petri.Kaurinkoski@iki.fi>