Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-11 Thread dE .
On 12/10/11 23:01, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, On 10/12/11 17:55, dE . wrote: syslog also logs kernel and X messages, check those out. I already attached all this to the initial bug report... Also do a memtest. the problem appeared as I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy, it would be quite bad

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-10 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 04/12/11 17:11, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:04 PM, dE .de.tec...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/11 20:39, Eric Lavarde wrote: [snip] Intel is giving problems? This's unlikely. This has to be a Debian bug. No, that would not be surprising at all.

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-10 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle sabato 10 dicembre 2011, Eric Lavarde ha scritto: In order to avoid ping-pong between KDE, kernel, and xorg, it would be already helpful to get instructions on how to pin down the issue in one of the 3 areas. And as KDE is the first one (from a user perspective) to fail without saying

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-10 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Pino, On 10/12/11 14:02, Pino Toscano wrote: Can you please check whether #651316 could be also your case? i.e., downgrade libdrm-intel1 to 2.4.27-1, and in case also attach the dmesg log. I already have libdrm-intel1 2.4.27-1 Regarding dmesg, I'd like to do it, but in general, once I've

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-10 Thread dE .
On 12/10/11 20:59, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi Pino, On 10/12/11 14:02, Pino Toscano wrote: Can you please check whether #651316 could be also your case? i.e., downgrade libdrm-intel1 to 2.4.27-1, and in case also attach the dmesg log. I already have libdrm-intel1 2.4.27-1 Regarding dmesg, I'd

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-10 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 10/12/11 17:55, dE . wrote: syslog also logs kernel and X messages, check those out. I already attached all this to the initial bug report... Also do a memtest. the problem appeared as I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy, it would be quite bad luck that it'd be due to a memory error

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-10 Thread Eric Lavarde
On 10/12/11 18:31, Eric Lavarde wrote: Also do a memtest. the problem appeared as I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy, it would be quite bad luck that it'd be due to a memory error at the same time. But ok it can't hurt... I'll let you know. Mem test done, nothing wrong here. Thanks, Eric

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-04 Thread dE .
On 12/03/11 20:39, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, On 03/12/11 15:06, dE . wrote: This looks like a graphics or bad hardware issues. Do you have composting enabled? Also what's your graphic chip? Compositing: I guess so, if I go to System Settings - Desktop effects are ON. I shut it off and the

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-04 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:04 PM, dE . de.tec...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/03/11 20:39, Eric Lavarde wrote: [snip] Intel is giving problems? This's unlikely. This has to be a Debian bug. No, that would not be surprising at all. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-03 Thread dE .
On 12/03/11 13:01, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hello, some more information: it appears that the issue is sometimes accompanied by screen disturbances, i.e. the screen appears scrambled and multiple times on the monitor (but not always), in which case I can only reboot the PC to get rid of the

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-03 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 03/12/11 15:06, dE . wrote: This looks like a graphics or bad hardware issues. Do you have composting enabled? Also what's your graphic chip? Compositing: I guess so, if I go to System Settings - Desktop effects are ON. I shut it off and the problems seems to have gone, BUT: 1. the

Bug#648521: Login fails sometimes with screen issues

2011-12-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, some more information: it appears that the issue is sometimes accompanied by screen disturbances, i.e. the screen appears scrambled and multiple times on the monitor (but not always), in which case I can only reboot the PC to get rid of the problem. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email