Bug#617492: [SPAM] Xdm no longer reads Xresources

2011-05-29 Thread Patrice Dumas
I also had this issue when I used dash as /bin/sh, and from gdm. In .xsession-errors there were some error messages about spurious (. My guess is dash is not happy with bashisms in scripts, certainly $(. In any case I think that using bashisms in system scripts is a very bad idea. -- Pat

Bug#628420: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: X freezes with GeForce FX5500

2011-05-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-28 21:59 +0200, Flo wrote: I have a 7 year old computer which is working fine so far and sufficient fast for my 'office' needs. I am running Debian testing. I bought a new monitor (HD) and a video card: 256 MB GeForce FX5500, Inno3D, AGP 8x/4x Working fine, unfortunately it

Bug#617492: Xdm no longer reads Xresources

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Patrice Dumas pertu...@free.fr (29/05/2011): I also had this issue when I used dash as /bin/sh, and from gdm. In .xsession-errors there were some error messages about spurious (. My guess is dash is not happy with bashisms in scripts, certainly $(. If you mean $(command), that's not a

Bug#628486: xserver-xorg: keyboard and mouse not working after upgrade unless module evdev is loaded manually

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alexander Heinlein alexander.heinl...@web.de (29/05/2011): after upgrading Xorg from 1.9.5 to 1.10.1 (and a lot of additional packages like udev) all my input devices stopped to work after starting X. Even without any xorg.conf or by creating a new one via Xorg -configure the problem

Bug#628486: xserver-xorg: keyboard and mouse not working after upgrade unless module evdev is loaded manually

2011-05-29 Thread Alexander Heinlein
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 04:49:44PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: udev + /run fun, meaning non-functional hotplug? Might be the reason, but I already tried to delete the /run directory as suggested in various places and it didn't help. Regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#628486: xserver-xorg: keyboard and mouse not working after upgrade unless module evdev is loaded manually

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alexander Heinlein alexander.heinl...@web.de (29/05/2011): Might be the reason, but I already tried to delete the /run directory as suggested in various places and it didn't help. Sorry, missed your xorg.conf; you should move it aside, there's nothing really needed there, and its contents look

Bug#628486: xserver-xorg: keyboard and mouse not working after upgrade unless module evdev is loaded manually

2011-05-29 Thread Alexander Heinlein
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 07:30:51PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Sorry, missed your xorg.conf; you should move it aside, there's nothing really needed there, and its contents look buggy. As for setting xkb options, see Basic keyboard configuration on:

Bug#626682: Side effects are not limited to sylog messages...

2011-05-29 Thread Sam Morris
For some time I've been dealing with this happening whenever I move a window to the left: http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/ticket/8909/corruption.png My CPU is an Intel Core i7 920. I'm finding using my computer fairly madenning because of this bug, which is worked around by activating the

Bug#626682: Side effects are not limited to sylog messages...

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sam Morris s...@robots.org.uk (29/05/2011): My CPU is an Intel Core i7 920. I'm finding using my computer fairly madenning because of this bug, which is worked around by activating the memmove preload library. I would appreciate it if the patch could be applied to the Debian packages of

Bug#626682: Side effects are not limited to sylog messages...

2011-05-29 Thread Sam Morris
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 22:40 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Sam Morris s...@robots.org.uk (29/05/2011): My CPU is an Intel Core i7 920. I'm finding using my computer fairly madenning because of this bug, which is worked around by activating the memmove preload library. I would appreciate

Bug#626682: Side effects are not limited to sylog messages...

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sam Morris s...@robots.org.uk (29/05/2011): TBH I didn't know that I was. I'm using vboxvideo_drv.so... Which might hit the same kinda path in the server as fbdev, OK (the original issue seemed to happen with fbdev only, didn't see any other complaints for other drivers until now). But my point