I have a pretty heterogeneous environment. After upgrading from Lucid
to Natty (required for one of the clients), I see a number of display
issues. If these are covered in the Natty release notes, I don't know
enough to be able to tell it. It might be worth saying that I only
upgraded to Natty because Lucid doesn't have a driver capable of fully
booting the z210's on-board NIC. But, because of that, I can't really
downgrade.
Could this be due to upgrading rather than doing a fresh install?
Could I have done one of those special "only true users can manage
this" things? I can give more machine details if that will help.
These are all in "Classic" mode. The server is AMD Opteron 8384
(amd64).
Key to behaviors indicated below:
** No Boot: Doesn't make it to login screen
** Elements Vertical Mirror: Machine boots, shows login correctly,
logs user in, starts X, the X display is arranged properly, but
individual text and image elements are mirrored vertically.
** No User X: Machine boots, shows the login screen, tries to log the
user in, but can't start X and returns the user to the login prompt.
** Die on Xterm: Boots, logs in, X starts right, but try to run
"xterm" from within a gnome-terminal and the screen freezes and you
get booted back to the login screen. Generally, the client must be
restarted to get proper X behavior on subsequent logins. We aren't
really so concerned with being able to start an xterm: some of our
scientific software (autodock tools, xleap) behaves the same way. I
just figured that "xterm" would be more useful to any poor soul who
tries to fix this.
** Too New NIC: The driver for the NIC isn't available in the image,
so the login doesn't complete.
** Slow Video Win7-32-VM: Very slow when showing videos within a Win7
32-bit Virtualbox virtual machine. Inside a Win7 64-bit VM seems
fine.
Key to images (the machine and all images are up to date as of Aug
26th -- monthly upgrade):
** Lucid-Lucid: Lucid server, Lucid image
** Natty-Lucid: Natty server, Lucid image
** Natty-Natty: Natty server, Natty image
Client 1: Old Dell Optiplex DX280: P4 (i386)
Using Onboard (old Dell whatever) video:
Lucid-Lucid : Worked as expected
Natty-Lucid : Elements Vertical Mirror (using correct
i386 boot image)
Natty-Natty : No User X
NVIDIA Geforce 6200 (256 MB, PCI)
Lucid-Lucid : No data
Natty-Lucid : Don't recall... sorry... can try if
important (I think "No Boot")
Natty-Natty : Works as expected
Client 2: HP dc5850 Microtower: AMD Phenom 9850B (amd64)
ATI Radeon 3100
Lucid-Lucid : Worked as expected
Lucid-Lucid(i386 by accident) : Elements Vertical Mirror
Natty-Lucid(correct amd64 image) : Elements Vertical Mirror
Natty-Natty : No User X
Client 3: HP z210 Intel Core I5 ("amd64")
NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS 400
Lucid-Lucid : Too New NIC
Natty-Lucid : Too New NIC
Natty-Natty : Die on Xterm
Client 4: HP z600 Intel Xeon e5620 ("amd64")
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
Lucid-Lucid : Worked as expected
Natty-Lucid : Works as expected
Natty-Natty : Die on Xterm
Clients 5 6 & 7: Essentially identical HP xw4100 Intel P4 (i386)
Note: I haven't tried every combination. I'm assuming the three
machines are interchangeable. Only their usage histories differ.
NVIDIA (EVGA) Geforce FX5700LE (265 MB)
Lucid-Lucid : No data
Natty-Lucid : Worked as expected
Natty-Natty : Did not properly recognize monitor capabilities
NVIDIA (PNY) Geforce 6200 (512 mb)
Lucid-Lucid : No data
Natty-Lucid : Works as expected
Natty-Natty : Mostly works, but Slow Video Win7-32-VM
Am I the only person seeing this type of thing? I wouldn't doubt
having made some magical mistake that no one else would ever make...
--
:-) Lachele
Lachele Foley
CCRC/UGA
Athens, GA USA
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