Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Barry White: I installed debian 7 successfully right to the end when it came up with a message that it flashes on the screen, something about gnome and video. It is not there long enough to read. I suspect that gnome does not like my video hardware, possibly because it an older

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 10/21/2013 04:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: In order to help you we need to know what kind of hardware you have. Run 'apt-get install pciutils' und send us the output of the command 'lcpsi'. In the meantime, you can install another desktop like

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Paul Cartwright: On 10/21/2013 04:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: In order to help you we need to know what kind of hardware you have. Run 'apt-get install pciutils' und send us the output of the command 'lcpsi'. In the meantime, you can install another desktop like xfce4 which does not need

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Barry White
Jochin Paul, I should mention that I had no problems with Deb 5 or Deb 6 on these m/cs. Cheers Barry Jochen Spieker wrote: Paul Cartwright: On 10/21/2013 04:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: In order to help you we need to know what kind of hardware you have. Run 'apt-get install pciutils'

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 10/21/2013 08:49 AM, Barry White wrote: Jochin Paul, I should mention that I had no problems with Deb 5 or Deb 6 on these m/cs. Cheers Barry older doesn't always mean supported any longer.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Barry White
Thanks Jochen Paul, Due to other problems I had to scrub the Deb 7 installation. It wiped out XP windows in the first partition and I had several errors occur during install. I finally managed to get to completion but grub did not know about windows. In this machine, (Deb 5.0) which is

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Please don't top-post. Barry White: Due to other problems I had to scrub the Deb 7 installation. It wiped out XP windows in the first partition and I had several errors occur during install. I finally managed to get to completion but grub did not know about windows. Please try to separate

Installing Debian 7

2013-10-20 Thread Barry White
Hello all, I installed debian 7 successfully right to the end when it came up with a message that it flashes on the screen, something about gnome and video. It is not there long enough to read. I suspect that gnome does not like my video hardware, possibly because it an older m/c.

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-26 Thread Larry Johnson
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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 mai 13, 21:19:48, Larry Johnson wrote: 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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 May 2013 at 21:19:48 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: 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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk 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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 07:14:00 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: I'll try a reinstall if no specific problem is identified. I did reinstall gnome itself with no effect on the problem. A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is repeatable. The following is my lspci output

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk 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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 07:00:58, Larry Johnson wrote: 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

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
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

problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-24 Thread Larry Johnson
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