Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-09 Thread John W Foster
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 still gets me back to X)

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-06 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:58:21 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: [...] What video card/driver are you using? -- Rares Aioanei debian.dev.list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:14:56AM +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:58:21 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: [...] What video card/driver are you using? -- Rares Aioanei debian.dev.list The card is: lspci | grep -i radeon 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:35:28PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:35:28 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 04 sep 10, 09:06:23, Stephen Powell wrote: Nice work, Andrei! Not fair, you did the heavy lifting :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:04:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 04 sep 10, 09:06:23, Stephen Powell wrote: Nice work, Andrei! Not fair, you did the heavy lifting :) Both deserving of a beer, if not a pizza as well, to be collectible at some future FTF. -j Regards, Andrei --

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:20:51 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Thanks for checking this out! Console *does* VT switching correctly under a stock 2.6.31-1-amd64 kernel. (But for some reason suspend doesn't work... will try a later kernel.) Why didn't I think of this? Probably

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: Hey, On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:20:51 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Thanks for checking this out! Console *does* VT switching correctly under a stock 2.6.31-1-amd64 kernel. (But for some reason suspend doesn't work...

sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 still gets me back to X) This problem appeared soon after converting to dependency-based

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 still gets me back to

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 still gets me back to

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:22:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. [ 1478.833236] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 1478.934354] [drm] radeon kernel

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. [ 1478.948761] [drm]

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should always follow up on such messages. Do you have package firmware-linux-nonfree installed? If so,

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:35:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should always follow up on such messages.