Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-31 Thread António PT
Thanks! I didn't know there was such a project. 2010/1/28 Florian Reitmeir > Hi, > > http://snapshot.debian.net/ > > > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Sebastian wrote: > > I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo >> v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly wi

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-29 Thread David L. Craig
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:12:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > If you are running Debian testing/unstable, please subscribe and listen > to what Developers are talking at > > debian-de...@lists.debian.org > debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Ah, somehow I have overlooked d-d-a all these y

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:15:02PM -0500, David L. Craig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the ... > > it as "Kernel Modesetting Stuff" (KMS). I don't know if that is http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:15:02 -0500, David L. Craig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the > > svgatextmode package, recent Linux kernels have taken over direct > > control of the video hardware, and recen

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the > svgatextmode package, recent Linux kernels have taken over direct > control of the video hardware, and recent releases of X now make > system calls to the kernel to change

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:06:01 -0500, David L. Craig wrote: > 1. I have an S3Virage that incurred similar issues. I have > backed up all my filesystems, freed up the space, and installed > a fresh Lenny with good results so far. Hopefully I will not > have time to debug further but if I do, I will

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, http://snapshot.debian.net/ On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Sebastian wrote: I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:54:37AM +, Sebastian wrote: > > I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo > v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with > resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the > net[1] on my debian squee

rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-27 Thread Sebastian
Hello all I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian squeeze/sid (apt prefers testing). After the xorg update from l