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Re: Bug#717054: gdm3: greeter garbles up screen, no input possible, cannot even switch to tty



reassign 717054 xserver-xorg-video-r128
retitle 717054 garbled screen & "Idle timed out, resetting engine" loop
tags 717054 + moreinfo
thanks

On 16/07/13 16:21, axst@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I am writing to say that I did try disabling GDM and using
> xinit and that I
> did get the exact same errors, so reassignmet seems a good idea, I just
> cannot tell to which package.

I don't know either, but xserver-xorg-video-r128 is probably a good
guess, so I'm doing that.

> BTW, as there is no X configuration file anymore, how can I test
> different X modules and settings, resolutions &c.?

You can create one if you need to, see xorg.conf(5).

>> Please attach the output of "reportbug --template
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/r128_drv.so", which should contain
>> information on X and the R128 driver.
> 
> Sorry. That machine is far away from my place, I was just trying to help
> some friends. I'll try things as soon as I can.

Unfortunately, I doubt the X maintainers are going to be able to help
much until they have that information. I've tagged the bug "more
information required".

    S


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