Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
I have a Panasonic subnotebook (CF-R3) that has been functioning superbly for months under Squeeze with Xfce/gdm. It has an integrated Intel video system and a Japanese / English keyboard with which I have used the standard kernel mapping (chosen during Expert install). This is Squeeze with no

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Alex Kuklin
On 04.09.2010 17:50, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I have a Panasonic subnotebook (CF-R3) that has been functioning superbly for months under Squeeze with Xfce/gdm. It has an integrated Intel video system and a Japanese / English keyboard with which I have used the standard kernel mapping (chosen

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 11:05 AM, Alex Kuklin wrote: 1) show a)`uname -a` output b) `lspci` output there are chances that the problem resides in new xorg drivers/code. Next steps depend on you particular video card model. Thanks, Alex. ~# uname -a Linux argh 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 14:28:12

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 11:07 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Not an exact solution, but perhaps you should not run testing as a desktop: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html Not meant to be snarky, just trying to say testing is for testing. I understand what you're saying, but I made the

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-04 17:23 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) My crystal ball tells me that you've been hit

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 10:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I have a Panasonic subnotebook (CF-R3) that has been functioning superbly for months under Squeeze with Xfce/gdm. It has an integrated Intel video system and a Japanese / English keyboard with which I have used the standard kernel

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 11:36 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-09-04 17:23 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) My

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-04 18:04 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I'm going to ask a couple of questions because I'm not quite sure how to even research them. The situation right now is that the system isn't connected to a network. I gather that, in order to downgrade the kernel, I've got to manage to

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You could also try wicd-curses if that's installed, or use X with the vesa driver. Here's an /etc/X11/xorg.conf for that: --8---cut here---start-8--- Section Device Identifier n Driver

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 11:07 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Now, on to something more helpful: can you boot the machine into a live distro of some sort, to verify that the machine it's self does not have a failure? Hi, Damon. Just wanted to get back to you. The hardware is okay. Sven reminded me that I

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 13:31 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 09/04/2010 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You could also try wicd-curses if that's installed, or use X with the vesa driver. Here's an /etc/X11/xorg.conf for that: --8---cut here---start-8---

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 11:05 AM, Alex Kuklin wrote: 1) show a)`uname -a` output b) `lspci` output there are chances that the problem resides in new xorg drivers/code. Next steps depend on you particular video card model. Hi, Alex. The information you had me get via the 'uname -a' and 'lspci' commands

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-04 19:31 +0200, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: However, just as I was about to roll up my sleeves and really start messing the system up I got your response. I hadn't even thought about reverting to vesa using /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I decided to experiment. The system seems to make an

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 01:44 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Install apt-listbugs. That way before the packages installs, you will get a list of reported bugs against that package and you can decide if you want to continue or not. Thank you for the heads-up on that. I actually have apt-listchanges

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/04/2010 02:00 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: Well, if the disadvantages of vesa do not bother you. It's slow and may not support your display's native resolution, but it works for basic 2D. I'm thinking I'll stick with vesa for now. And it does support this display's native resolution of