Re: No.cursor on the Gnome Terminal. in Wheezy
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > I see the same behavior on my system, but I'm using fluxbox. Normally I > just use xterm instead of gnome-terminal. But I just discovered that in > gnome-terminal I can get the colors back correctly like this: > > Edit, Profile Preferences, Colors, uncheck "Use colors from system theme" > > -Rob I've experienced the same problem, and the fix you suggested here cleared up the problem (I was running xfce).
Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7
Hmmm this problem recurred after the reinstall, but it's only happened once in five boots. I'm going to gather as much info as I can, keep the bug report open, and add whatever useful info I can to the report. The road I'm going to go down for now is that this may be the result of an interaction between gnome and the nouveau driver. Before the offending reboot messages of the following sort were spewed into the messages file: May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093583] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 4 class 0x0039 mthd 0x0300 data 0x0003 May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093588] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: ILLEGAL_MTHD nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093594] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 4 class 0x0039 mthd 0x0304 data 0x0003 May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093598] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: ILLEGAL_MTHD nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT May 25 19:15:50 nerowolfe kernel: [29293.093604] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 4 class 0x0039 mthd 0x0308 data 0x012001df May 25 20:02:16 nerowolfe kernel: [32079.928230] nouveau_ratelimit: 32 callbacks suppressed May 25 20:02:16 nerowolfe kernel: [32079.928238] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ERROR nsource: DATA_ERROR nstatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT May 25 20:02:16 nerowolfe kernel: [32079.928257] [drm] nouveau :00:0d.0: PGRAPH - ch 3 (0x0006b000) subc 2 class 0x3089 mthd 0x0300 data 0x0a0a000a Further, in the exchange in the first fedora bug report in Brian's links earlier in this thread a similar problem was diagnosed in terms of the nouveau driver. At this point I'm going to pull together the diagnostic info suggested in the fedora bug report. I'm also going to keep an eye on just what percentage of reboots this happens. Larry On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Larry Johnson < larryfeltonjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason > I wouldn't have expected. I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was > using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip). I'm > not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but > reinstalling with the proper version corrected the problem. It also fixed > another more cosmetic problem with the gnome display (an ugly black blank > space initially at the bottom of the screen). I'm going to reboot a few > times, and if the problem doesn't recur update the bug report. > > > -- Amat Victoria Carum
sound synchronization in flash
Here's a somewhat silly problem I'd like to chase down (but wouldn't be a disaster if it stays broken) I've been navigating around my new wheezy install checking that everything works (so far nearly everything does), but I stumbled on an odd little issue. I went to a flash pacman site (at http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/ ) and the familiar "chomping" sound effect is out of synchronization. It's in sync on my wife's Windows machine and was on my former Fedora install. Where should I start in diagnosing this? ALSA? I searched bug reports and didn't find a good candidate for a similar bug. Larry -- Amat Victoria Carum
Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7
Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason I wouldn't have expected. I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip). I'm not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but reinstalling with the proper version corrected the problem. It also fixed another more cosmetic problem with the gnome display (an ugly black blank space initially at the bottom of the screen). I'm going to reboot a few times, and if the problem doesn't recur update the bug report.
Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Brian wrote: > > A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is > repeatable. > I'll do a reinstall then. I'd really like to track this down. > You'll be using the nouveau driver, then. The controller belongs to the > NV40 family. > >http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/ > > I don't want to lead you up the wrong path but there is this: > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745202 > > and this: > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802069 > > I do not use GNOME but believe there is a fallback mode; you could > investigate using it. Providing the card with more memory via the BIOS > is also an option, > Thanks Brian. This gives me a lot to chew on, assuming a reinstall doesn't clear the problem. Larry
Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Brian wrote: > > > Considering it is a new install (done by selecting a DE via d-i, we > assume) you have nothing to lose by reinstalling. Also, the video system > may be the culprit. 'lspci' will give you information on it which you > could post here. > > I'll try a reinstall if no specific problem is identified. I did reinstall gnome itself with no effect on the problem. The following is my lspci output 00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 1.1 Controller (rev a3) 00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 USB 2.0 Controller (rev a3) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2) 00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > And the number of your report is? > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even really sure whether I should identify the problem as "gnome" or "gnome-shell". I did find a workaround on the web from someone who had a similar problem. If I go to Advanced Settings and adjust the text scaling factor the problem clears, even if I bring the factor back to 1.0. I have no idea what that indicates, but the problem goes away until my next reboot if I do that.
problem with gnome on installing Debian 7
I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what additional info I might need to pull together). I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my install seems to be afflicted with a very old bug which was closed with no resolution. It was bug 636874 "gnome-shell: random characters are missing" On boot my top bar and menu lack the letters 'a' 'r' 's' and 't' I submitted a report and will dig through and see if a more recent report on the same issue was filed (the report spanned 2011 and 2012), but is anyone else experiencing this? Should I just wait patiently for a response to my report? Larry -- Amat Victoria Carum
