Re: Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

2016-08-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/08/16 15:14, Ric Moore wrote: On 08/04/2016 07:12 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing Once you introduce Debian Multimedia to your mix, you get to keep all the broken pieces. "These packages are known to not integrate well with o

Re: Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

2016-08-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/04/2016 07:12 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing Once you introduce Debian Multimedia to your mix, you get to keep all the broken pieces. "These packages are known to not integrate well with other software packages in Debian and

Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

2016-08-04 Thread Alan Chandler
I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing About a week or so ago now, suddenly it has lost all its on screen text when playing a video (recorded TV programs). The surrounding overlays are all there, just the text is missing - including on pop up menus. As soon

Re: Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 03:13 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write > > some > > text with French accents. But then it kept on coming

Re: Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-25 Thread cbannister
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write some > text with French accents. But then it kept on coming up when I didn't > want it, every time I went into any text field. I removed the applet >

Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write some text with French accents. But then it kept on coming up when I didn't want it, every time I went into any text field. I removed the applet from my toolbar - no difference.  I found the cinnamon on-screen- keyboard and de

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 19:54 (UTC-0400): mc has been around for north of 30 years I believe, actually dateing back to dos-2.0 days or before. MC is a 22 year old clone of Norton Commander for DOS (which at the time of NC birth was v3.2, prior to existence of extended HD partition

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Wright wrote: > > > > It seems obvious to me, he's talking about screen corruption. > > > > Gene, Is this when you close it down? > > > > > > He might be, except I've never seen screen corruption when running > > > aptitude. > > >

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 June 2016 22:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I can attest that Debian jessie's Konsole doesn't work quite right in > every situation with the "TERM=xterm" and Debian's terminfo, for > example. Gene is in fact using, or not using, Konsole-Trinity, not KDE-Konsole. Lisi

ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 00:09:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > It seems obvious to me, he's talking about screen corrupti

Re: Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

2016-04-06 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 02/04/16 08:50, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-04-02 06:51 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > >> On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:58:17 +0200 >> Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2016-04-01 13:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>> Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-04-01 15:14 (UTC+0100): > Following an

Re: Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ktop.iso as well >> as debian-live-8.3.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso. >> >> Instead of the GUI (desktop etc.) only a garbled screen: Sometimes >> black with only a mouse pointer, sometimes yellow and green horizontal >> blocks or other weird patterns. The system mostly hangs

Re: Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
doesn't even boot > correctly. > > Besides that, my bug report would be as follows: > > > Package: ??? > Version: 8.3.0-live ? > > > No GUI when booting debian-live-8.3.0-i386-gnome-desktop.iso as well > as debian-live-8.3.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso. > > Instea

Bug report (ASUS M2NPV/VM: Garbled screen instead of GUI)

2016-04-04 Thread Manfred
llows: Package: ??? Version: 8.3.0-live ? No GUI when booting debian-live-8.3.0-i386-gnome-desktop.iso as well as debian-live-8.3.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso. Instead of the GUI (desktop etc.) only a garbled screen: Sometimes black with only a mouse pointer, sometimes yellow and green horizontal

Re: Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

2016-04-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-04-02 06:51 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:58:17 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2016-04-01 13:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> >> > Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-04-01 15:14 (UTC+0100): >> > >> >> Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the deskto

Re: Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

2016-04-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:58:17 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-04-01 13:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-04-01 15:14 (UTC+0100): > > > >> Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the desktop manager > >> the following day. Running a live system I

Re: Blank screen on tty (console) (revised)

2016-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Himanshu Shekhar composed on 2016-04-01 22:00 (UTC+0530): I am unable to use virtual console. Tried all combinations of cTRL+alt+f- . Only X works fine. Rest all screens show an underscore (cursor) which doesn't blink. I can't even login. Even if you wait 30 seconds or a minute or more? Goog

OT: GRUB kernel options (Was: Blank screen on tty (console))

2016-04-01 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:34:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Himanshu Shekhar composed on 2016-04-01 22:00 (UTC+0530): > > > I am unable to use virtual console. Tried all combinations of cTRL+alt+f- . > > Only X works fine. Rest all screens show an underscore (cursor) which > > doesn't blink. I can't

Re: Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

2016-04-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-04-01 13:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-04-01 15:14 (UTC+0100): > >> Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the desktop manager >> the following day. Running a live system I was able to extract the >> following via 'dmesg'. Does anyone recogn

Re: Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

2016-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-04-01 15:14 (UTC+0100): Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the desktop manager the following day. Running a live system I was able to extract the following via 'dmesg'. Does anyone recognise this, or can offer a pointer to the problem?

Re: Blank screen on tty (console)

2016-04-01 Thread Felix Miata
Himanshu Shekhar composed on 2016-04-01 22:00 (UTC+0530): I am unable to use virtual console. Tried all combinations of cTRL+alt+f- . Only X works fine. Rest all screens show an underscore (cursor) which doesn't blink. I can't even login. Even if you wait 30 seconds or a minute or more? Goog

Blank screen on tty (console)

2016-04-01 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I am unable to use virtual console. Tried all combinations of cTRL+alt+f- . Only X works fine. Rest all screens show an underscore (cursor) which doesn't blink. I can't even login. Googling lead to a solution which said to change resolution in grub configuration and enable grub terminal. It worked

Failure to reach login screen - nouveau problem

2016-04-01 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the desktop manager the following day. Running a live system I was able to extract the following via 'dmesg'. Does anyone recognise this, or can offer a pointer to the problem? ++

Re: Keyboard frozen after changing screen brightness

2016-03-31 Thread Celejar
0 > Jessie (i686) > GNOME 3.14.1 > > I boot normally and log in. When pressing Fn+Home to increase brightness > or Fn+End to decrease brightness, I observe a very sluggish behaviour of > the on screen brightness display (i.e. the "indicator icon" with the bar > beneat

Re: Keyboard frozen after changing screen brightness

2016-03-31 Thread Sven Arvidsson
vo T400 > Jessie (i686) > GNOME 3.14.1 > > I boot normally and log in. When pressing Fn+Home to increase > brightness > or Fn+End to decrease brightness, I observe a very sluggish behaviour > of > the on screen brightness display (i.e. the "indicator icon" with the

Keyboard frozen after changing screen brightness

2016-03-30 Thread Jan Niggemann
ss or Fn+End to decrease brightness, I observe a very sluggish behaviour of the on screen brightness display (i.e. the "indicator icon" with the bar beneath, not the brightness itself which changes instantly): It takes almost one second before the icon comes up and the change in brightne

Re: How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-03-10 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50:09AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote > system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. In Gnome, I usually use Vinagre. In other DEs, I use ssvnc. -- John

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-27 Thread arian
Hi, I think I stumbled upon this before, but it was not that much of a problem for me, because I never disable my laptops internal screen - it's probably desktop-environment dependent, which one are you using? - do you have an sshd running? ssh into you laptop and issue # xrandr -

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 22:06 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-02-26, Albin Ludvig Otterhäll wrote: > > I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is > > connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop > > screen is b

Re: Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2016-02-26, Albin Ludvig Otterhäll wrote: > I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is > connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop > screen is blacked out and the two monitors starts showing the desktop. > No problems her

Laptop screen doesn't activate when disconnect from external monitors

2016-02-26 Thread Albin Ludvig Otterhäll
I've my Thinkpad T430 connected to a docking station, which itself is connected to two external monitors. When I dock my laptop the laptop screen is blacked out and the two monitors starts showing the desktop. No problems here. But when I disconnect the laptop from the docking station the de

Re: How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-02-24 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 24 February 2016 12:12:54 Javier Vasquez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > ... > > What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote > > system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. > > Are you looking f

Re: How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-02-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > ... > What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote > system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. Are you looking for x11vnc [1][2] on the host you want to see? If so, tigervnc and others c

How to VNC to active screen on remote system.

2016-02-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
I wish I could remember all of this stuff! What is the program that will connect to the current session on the remote system? I have used it before but I can't remember what it was. Many TIA! Dennis

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-22 Thread jdd
Le 21/02/2016 19:49, Sven Arvidsson a écrit : I also suggest that you document your efforts on getting Debian to run here: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/ Both the stuff that works, and the stuff that doesn't. I will, after having investigated a bit more :-) I was worried to noti

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 18:49 +0100, jdd wrote: > forgot to say I can connect to the tablet with ssh, so I can see the  > logs, but with no clue (for me) Xorg logs should be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log in jessie. you can post it here if you need help understanding it. If KMS doesn't work at all, it migh

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread Felix Miata
jdd composed on 2016-02-21 18:46 (UTC+0100): >> Can you double check that you're really running the Xorg intel driver >> and isn't getting fbdev or something similar? > don't know, because it do not start with the default grub config. I have > to add nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 to have a display

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread jdd
forgot to say I can connect to the tablet with ssh, so I can see the logs, but with no clue (for me) jdd

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread jdd
have a display, including console with fbcon=rotate:1 in the grub linux line, I have finally a *terminal only* landscape oriented screen (with target multi-users in systemd). BUT the boot menu is still portrait if I run startxfce4, it comes with portrait orientation. jdd

Re: rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 11:00 +0100, jdd wrote: > Hello, > > I try to install debian jessie on a windows 10 It Works TW891 tablet  > (with attached keyboard) > > using the hybrid 32/64 bits dvd, I could install jessie with xfce. > > But... it's installed in portrai

rotating screen in debian tablet

2016-02-21 Thread jdd
Hello, I try to install debian jessie on a windows 10 It Works TW891 tablet (with attached keyboard) using the hybrid 32/64 bits dvd, I could install jessie with xfce. But... it's installed in portrait mode (the screen need to be seen with the longer size vertical), when the keyboard e

konqueror: no full screen with HTML5

2016-01-13 Thread Hans
Hi folks, does anyone know, how I can get full-screen in konqueror with html5? I am using webkit and phonon-vlc. It looks like this option is disabled in konqueror (icon is disabled/inactive), because in iceweasel full-screen is possible (icon is active). Thanks for any help. Best Hans

Re: Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2016 08 Jan 14:13 -0600, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Another option might be the last answer here: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/201900/run-true-multiple-process-instances-of-gnome-terminal Kind of a kludge but that did start a terminal session on the :0.1 screen so I can use

Re: Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 11:20 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > A difference is that I am not using Xephyr and so no extran X server. > Instead I am using Zaphod heads mode.  I will check again when I get > home with the --display option.  I seem to recall that did not make > any > difference. > > After

Re: Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2016 08 Jan 10:48 -0600, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Not sure what's going on.  > > I tried by running an extra X server with Xephyr. No problem launching > gnome-terminal there by using --display (with no other g-t-s running) > or by launching gnome-terminal from an xterm inside Xephyr. A diffe

Re: Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
ICT gnome-terminal runs a single process, /usr/lib/gnome- > > terminal/gnome-terminal-server each call to gnome-terminal just > > creates > > a new window. So if you have g-t-s running on the first screen it > > will > > most likely use that.  > > No other instan

Re: Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
each call to gnome-terminal just creates > a new window. So if you have g-t-s running on the first screen it will > most likely use that.  No other instances of GT are running. This would be the first and only. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possibl

Re: Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 20:55 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > This is puzzling me.  My Xorg is set up for dual-head operation with > each head having its own screen and four Xfce workspaces per screen. > It's something I've had working well for several years. > > For variou

Gnome Terminal only opens on Xorg screen 0

2016-01-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is puzzling me. My Xorg is set up for dual-head operation with each head having its own screen and four Xfce workspaces per screen. It's something I've had working well for several years. For various reasons I would like to use Gnome Terminal for an terminal application as it can

Re: Xorg reconfigure on keyboard/VGA screen connect with systemd?

2015-11-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 18:49:00 +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > Hello, > > Can I use systemd to automatically run scripts as the owner of an > X session when a USB keyboard or a VGA screen are connected to the > local machine? Or what other mechanism would you use? > It sho

Re: Xorg reconfigure on keyboard/VGA screen connect with systemd?

2015-11-12 Thread Andreas Henriksson
ession when a USB keyboard or a VGA screen are connected to the > local machine? Or what other mechanism would you use? As far as I'm aware there's no "production ready" solution for this yet (in Debian). > > In the past, doing so automatically would involve some sort of

Xorg reconfigure on keyboard/VGA screen connect with systemd?

2015-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, Can I use systemd to automatically run scripts as the owner of an X session when a USB keyboard or a VGA screen are connected to the local machine? Or what other mechanism would you use? In the past, doing so automatically would involve some sort of hook in /etc (invoked as root), which

How to lock screen correctly with light-locker?

2015-10-12 Thread Jayson Willson
d so I can press some key on the keyboard, and it will be handled before locker turns on -> insecure. If I launch it without "--no-late-locking", then the following happens: Computer stand idle for 10 minutes, display turns off, screen locker turns on, display turns back on automat

Too many screen clearings

2015-09-20 Thread Serhii Savchuk
Some reasons make me use own splash screens in my debian stretch. My service starts just /dev/fb0 is set. I found unwanted screen clearing occurs three times up to my main program starts from ~/.config/openbox/autostart: 1) getty@tty1.service does it (despite autologin, -noclear option in command

Re: Gray screen vnc viewer (Debian 8.3)

2015-09-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Just sharing: i am no longer using default vino server. i am using vnc4server and also tightvncserver both shows the same result. On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > All, > > I am having gray screen issue no matter what setting i put in my xstartup > fi

Gray screen vnc viewer (Debian 8.3)

2015-09-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
All, I am having gray screen issue no matter what setting i put in my xstartup file. when ever i connect the client it shows me something gray screen i can not see anything in the log i dont know what is going on. it never happend to me before. no xstartup config is working in this. any

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 06.09.2015 19:40, Stephen Powell wrote: > The OP said that what he included in this problem report came from > another problem report, because it scrolled off the screen too fast > for him to give actual data. True, but it was pretty damn close (lots of 0xffs) > (Perhaps he

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Felix Miata
t; exactly like this): > [2.123456] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is > invalid, remainder is 43... > This message comes about 3-4 times within 500ms (all guessed values, it > all runs very fast), then the screen goes dark. > My guess is that it's trying to do some font switchi

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
pply the EDID > file, there are several under Documentation/EDID/ in the kernel > source (assembly source and a Makefile). The OP said that what he included in this problem report came from another problem report, because it scrolled off the screen too fast for him to give actual data. (Perh

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-09-06 12:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:45:30 -0400 (EDT), Johannes Bauer wrote: >> >> [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 43 > > Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. > Windows is more tolerant

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Felix Miata
Johannes Bauer composed on 2015-09-06 11:45 (UTC+0200): > My guess is that it's trying to do some font switching or frame buffer > stuff, can't read what the monitor has to offer and switches to a weird > setting. The system is alive (can ssh into it), but I'd like console > output as well. > So

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:45:30 -0400 (EDT), Johannes Bauer wrote: > > [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 43 Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. Windows is more tolerant of EDID checksum errors than Linux is. If switching monitor

Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
ms (all guessed values, it all runs very fast), then the screen goes dark. My guess is that it's trying to do some font switching or frame buffer stuff, can't read what the monitor has to offer and switches to a weird setting. The system is alive (can ssh into it), but I'd like console

Re: kde screen does not unlock

2015-08-26 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 27/08/2015 02:24, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 08/26/2015 10:30 AM, Hans wrote: Hello list, I cannot unlock kde5 screen although the password is correct. This behaviour appeared in kde4, too. I believe this is not a bug, it looks for me, that the related file got not the correct rights settings

Re: kde screen does not unlock

2015-08-26 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/26/2015 10:30 AM, Hans wrote: Hello list, I cannot unlock kde5 screen although the password is correct. This behaviour appeared in kde4, too. I believe this is not a bug, it looks for me, that the related file got not the correct rights settings. I have this: ls -la /usr/lib/x86_64

kde screen does not unlock

2015-08-26 Thread Hans
Hello list, I cannot unlock kde5 screen although the password is correct. This behaviour appeared in kde4, too. I believe this is not a bug, it looks for me, that the related file got not the correct rights settings. I have this: ls -la /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 (EDT), Gene Heskett wrote: > > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 1

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 17:10:08 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > If the blanking is caused by a screensaver application under the control of > your desktop environment, that should work (I guess). > > But if it's caused by either DPMS being invoked, or X blanking the monitor, > then you'll need to expl

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 July 2015 06:21:48 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on > > xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort > > to kill

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minut

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:10:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: > > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > >> For xfce, you might try this: > >> > >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart > >> Scroll down and uncheck

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 19:10:08 D. R. Evans wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: > > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > >> For xfce, you might try this: > >> > >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart > >> Scroll down and uncheck Screens

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread D. R. Evans
Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: >> For xfce, you might try this: >> >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart >> Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. > > Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchec

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Brian
every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort > > > to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it > > > for 10 minutes in a row. > > > > > > So obviously the solution is not an xset command in the startup. > > > > > > Doe

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 July 2015 21:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > might be useful if the above doesn't work out for you. for a session, however long it be, though not permanently: $ xset -dpms Or you may have to do: # xset -dpms That works until you next reboot. In my experience turning the screensav

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > For xfce, you might try this: > > Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart > Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the blankers and setting the times north of

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Mike Castle
For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. There may be additional things you need to do to make sure session stuff isn't loading screensavers through some other mechanism (i.e, squirreled away in a saved sessi

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 14:35:04 Brian wrote: > On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on > > xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort > > to kill the screen bla

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minut

shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes in a row. So obviously the solution is not an xset command in the st

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-07-06 Thread Jimmy Jönsson
Robert S gmail.com> writes: > > Hi. > > I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an > upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. > > Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST > screen - there's no GRUB scr

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-23 Thread Ingo K .
Ingo K. gmx.li> writes: > Same here, I upgraded an up-to date Debian wheezy 7.8 with a grub2 1.99 on > an old Poweredge 650 to jessie 8.1. The upgrade brought grub2 2.02beta2-22 > and big problems. > grub2 [...] displays nothing > except a black screen (tried different displa

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-23 Thread Ingo K .
2beta2-22 and big problems. (Sorry for excavating the week-old thread but perhaps I got some useful info for other people.) > Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST > screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. Before my booting process looked like thi

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/17/2015 03:46 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: Yes John Hasler..I have already done that..the screen still goes black after booting :( Please don't top post. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
command line?? The easiest way to remove X and ALL GUI stuff is to reinstall. Really! Choose Expert mode or get the NetInstall CD and install only the Base System, a minimal, command-line only set up that you can build the system you need off of. Your black screen problem has happened to me in the pa

After system boot screen goes blank -- [DEBIAN 8 without GNOME]

2015-06-17 Thread venkat
all GNOME. We prefer "ICEWM" with startx. 2. Debian installation without GNOME: To prepare our production system, we installed Debian 8 without GNOME, After installation , Added same "nolapic" in kernel parameters to start booting process. But , this time saw all

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Allums wrote: > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc. > >... > > And then the screen goes black..nothing appears. > > I have tested the video card on windows and it works well. > > > > I also w

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread sp113438
ooting the following lines appear: > > > > Loading, Please wait... > > fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 > > /dev/sda5: clean, 48855/7553024 files, 821115/38202368 blocks > > _ > > > > And then the screen goes black..nothing appears. > > I have tested the

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
which one is the default in BIOS. [I have, in the past, had to boot without a video card using the inbuilt VGA, tell it to default to PCI on reboot then switch off, insert the card and hope :) ] > >And then the screen goes black..nothing appears. > >I have tested the video card on windows

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Yes John Hasler..I have already done that..the screen still goes black after booting :( On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:41 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Dwijesh Gajadur writes: > > I want to use pure command line...I don't want any GUI services to > > load when debian boots..Is there

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Dwijesh Gajadur writes: > I want to use pure command line...I don't want any GUI services to > load when debian boots..Is there a way to remove all GUI service?. Just don't install a display manager. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
t; >> Loading, Please wait... >> fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 >> /dev/sda5: clean, 48855/7553024 files, 821115/38202368 blocks >> _ >> >> And then the screen goes black..nothing appears. >> I have tested the video card on windows and it works well

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Allums
/7553024 files, 821115/38202368 blocks _ And then the screen goes black..nothing appears. I have tested the video card on windows and it works well. I also want to run debian on non-graphical mode..I did not install any desktop environment.I want to run it on command line as a server. Press Ctrl

Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
then the screen goes black..nothing appears. I have tested the video card on windows and it works well. I also want to run debian on non-graphical mode..I did not install any desktop environment.I want to run it on command line as a server. Please help me solve this. Thanks, With Regards, Dwijesh

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
t disk before, it is not necessary after. Besides, BIOSes generally print an error message such as "no bootable device found" instead of just a blank screen. See also <http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html> which contains valuable information about booting in BIOS mode from a GPT

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-13 Thread Robert S
I have managed to make my system bootable by installing LILO. Could somebody let me know if this is likely to be obsoleted any time? I haven't received any indication that it will be. Have you explored the new bios settings? If we can assume it is a real working update, you might have some op

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/12/2015 11:22 PM, Robert S wrote: Sadly this problem started AFTER I upgraded my BIOS. I have tried installing debian (AMD64) from scratch and am unable to boot from this either. I can't find any way to downgrade the BIOS and there is only one BIOS upgrade file on the Gigabyte website.

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-12 Thread Robert S
I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolv

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-12 Thread gmane
I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I had a similar problem with a laptop. I resolv

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie

2015-06-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/06/15 10:01 AM, Robert S wrote: Hi. I have had a functioning system on wheeze using grub2. I did an upgrade to Jessie according to the debian docs. Now when I boot my system I simply get a black screen after the POST screen - there's no GRUB screen or any hint of it. I've

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