Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:17:09 -0400
>...So, a bug filing is apparently needed. I'd like you to file it
OK, with great trepidation I've sent a report to the Debian Bug
Tracking System, and received automatic acknowledgement of it as
Bug#859423. Those interested should follow
Felix Miata wrote on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 02:22:10 -0400
>Your goal is to boot without Plymouth and without framebuffer, in
>80x25 mode, to give Xorg the best possible chance to work as expect.
>If Plymouth is installed, purge it.
>
>To proceed, hit the e key when the Grub menu appears, then
Xorg.0.log shows by running
>'journalctl -b -1'?
Nope, though I might possibly not recognise a clue...
Apologies for uselessness (and also btw for wrecking the thread
structure with a completely inadvertent small subject change, the
genesis of which is a complete mystery to me).
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Tony Stoneley
to...@tuxteam.de wrote on Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:29:52 +0200
>is the system totally dead or just the display? Can you ping (or even
>ssh) your box? In case you have no network, the effort of setting one
>up (locally) might well pay off.
I wish I could, but alas I only have one PC here, albeit on a
=920046b5-b826-4c18-85a7-c986f9c15dfd ro quiet iomem=relaxed
[ 6651.505] Build Date: 03 March 2017 03:15:35PM [ 6651.506]
xorg-server 2:1.19.2-1 (https://www.debian.org/support)
...
[ 6659.399] (EE)
[ 6659.399] (EE) Backtrace:
Apologies. Problem remains, however.
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Tony Stoneley
I'm trying an experimental upgrade from stable to testing on an
elderly system with a Matrox Millenium G550 graphics adaptor plugged
directly into the motherboard, using the mga driver, and have run into
a brick wall with the xserver. When started, eg with startx, the
system immediately freezes
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