Peter said on Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:31:13 +0000 >Hi, I have just upgraded to Debian 12 and find Lyx will not load. In >addition, trying to load it seems to crash xorg, so the only way out >is to reboot.
Is your video card an nVidea? In the Linux world, friends don't let friends use nVidea. Because of their ultra-paranoid secrecy on their interfaces, the Free Software world has a very hard time making drivers for their cards, and my experience is that their proprietary drivers are intermittent and defective also. If you don't believe me, search the web. If you have an nVidea graphics card, a simple change to Debian's nVidea graphics drivers could be causing this, and good luck finding the magic sauce to fix this intermittent. If this is a laptop, you can't replace the video card, so your best bet is to join MANY Linux User Group (LUG) mailing lists, and see if people can help you find this year's secret sauce configuration for your particular nVidea video interface. If it's a desktop, I recommend buying yourself a nice Radeon or Intel video card to replace your nVidea card or supplant your Mobo hosted nVidea graphic interface, and then use the bios to turn off the built-in. Either way, once you've gotten rid of your nVidea graphic hardware, uninstall all the nVidea graphic software and drivers. If switching out of nVidea doesn't fix the problem, that's fine, you've improved your computer anyway, and you'll have ruled out a huge chunk or X crash causes. I know this will be responded to by tens of people saying their nVidea video interfaces work just fine. This is true, but when nVidea graphic interfaces cause problems, they take days to troubleshoot. If you don't currently have an nVidea graphic interface, please disregard this post. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
