Thanks again for your quick answer.
Neither, I just did apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade. That may have upgraded my release, I don't know.Nigel Horne<njh@bandsman.co.uk> (21/02/2011):upgrading from which version?I've no idea. But if you can give me a pointer on how to find out I will let you know. Is it in a log file somewhere?/var/log/dpkg.log will probably tell you. But if you could tell me whether you upgraded from a squeeze system to a sid system, that would be OK for me.
I have this in my dpkg.log, is it what you're after?2011-02-21 19:10:53 upgrade xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-02-21 19:10:53 status half-configured xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 2011-02-21 19:10:53 status unpacked xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 2011-02-21 19:10:53 status half-installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 2011-02-21 19:10:54 status half-installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 2011-02-21 19:10:54 status half-installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 2011-02-21 19:10:54 status unpacked xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-02-21 19:10:54 status unpacked xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-02-21 19:18:55 configure xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-02-21 19:18:55 status unpacked xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-02-21 19:18:55 status half-configured xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2 2011-02-21 19:18:55 status installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20101210+8bb8231-2
2011-02-21 19:12:17 upgrade xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:12:17 status half-configured xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11 2011-02-21 19:12:17 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11 2011-02-21 19:12:17 status half-installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11 2011-02-21 19:12:17 status half-installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11 2011-02-21 19:12:17 status half-installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11 2011-02-21 19:12:18 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:12:18 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:18:55 configure xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.4-3 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:18:55 status unpacked xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:18:55 status half-configured xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:18:55 status installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.9.4-3 2011-02-21 19:15:34 install linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 <none> 2.6.37-12011-02-21 19:15:34 status half-installed linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1 2011-02-21 19:15:35 status half-installed linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1
2011-02-21 19:15:38 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1 2011-02-21 19:15:38 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1 2011-02-21 19:17:17 upgrade linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+29 2.6.37+30 2011-02-21 19:17:17 status half-configured linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+29 2011-02-21 19:17:18 status unpacked linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+29 2011-02-21 19:17:18 status half-installed linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+29 2011-02-21 19:17:18 status half-installed linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.32+29 2011-02-21 19:17:18 status unpacked linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.37+30 2011-02-21 19:17:18 status unpacked linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.37+30 2011-02-21 19:19:25 configure linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1 2.6.37-1 2011-02-21 19:19:25 status unpacked linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-12011-02-21 19:19:25 status half-configured linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1
2011-02-21 19:20:10 status installed linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64 2.6.37-1 2011-02-21 19:20:56 configure linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.37+30 2.6.37+30 2011-02-21 19:20:56 status unpacked linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.37+30 2011-02-21 19:20:57 status half-configured linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.37+30 2011-02-21 19:20:57 status installed linux-image-2.6-amd64 2.6.37+30
That mentions the file xorg.conf, but not which directory said file is in. Is it still in /etc/X11?If you don't know, look for the following package in that log file: linux-image-* (packages starting with “linux-image-”) xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Until we triage it further (probably a bug in the kernel or in the nouveau driver), you may want to try and use the fbdev driver instead. Make sure xserver-xorg-video-fbdev is installed and specify the fbdev driver in xorg.conf as described in: http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/faq/general.html
It's difficult to explain that. I mean you get horizontal lines and part of the screen is reproduced all over the place. I can't find the words to describe it.Do you mean X starts but the screen is garbled?YesCould you please explain a bit more details how it's garbled?
In the meanwhile, I'm reassigning this bug report to the nouveau video driver, Sven will probably take you from here.
Thank you.
KiBi.
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