Bug#516210: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: black screen after Lenny install

2009-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd Version: 1.2.1-2 Severity: important Might warrant higher severity, since it prevents any graphical use of the system. In fact, my immediate reaction was that the installation had failed; console based virtual terminals (and switching to them) still work.

Bug#516210: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: black screen after Lenny install

2009-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:17 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd Version: 1.2.1-2 Severity: important Might warrant higher severity, since it prevents any graphical use of the system. No. Higher severity are for packages breaking

Bug#516210: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: black screen after Lenny install

2009-02-19 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:33 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: FYI I had also installed fglrx-driver and related packages (no 3D stuff). These caused X to fail and print a backtrace. I removed them and the open source drivers seemed to get control back. Are you saying

Bug#465084: xserver-xorg-video-nv: system hang on session exit [logs]

2008-02-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I can now ssh in while the system is hung up, and I have attached logs captured during a recent hang up. Top showed Xorg using 100% CPU at the time. When I killed xorg (signal 9) I got a fresh, working X. The shutdown I requested was aborted. The timing is a little surprising, since things

Bug#465084: xserver-xorg-video-nv: system hang on session exit with Quadro NVS 135M

2008-02-10 Thread Ross Boylan
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Bug#465084: xserver-xorg-video-nv: system hang on session exit with Quadro NVS 135M

2008-02-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 17:36 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv Version: 1:2.1.3-1 Severity: normal Severity is higher for me! I'm guessing that the driver is the ultimate source of the problem; please reassign as appropriate. X starts

Bug#342817: 342817: nvidia hangs system continues

2007-12-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:19 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: found 342817 1:2.1.3-1 retitle 342817 nv open source driver hangs system with GeForce 6600 PCIe thanks I thought I'd give this another try, since the proprietary drivers (as packaged for Debian) are unavailable

Bug#342817: 342817: nvidia hangs system continues

2007-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
found 342817 1:2.1.3-1 retitle 342817 nv open source driver hangs system with GeForce 6600 PCIe thanks I thought I'd give this another try, since the proprietary drivers (as packaged for Debian) are unavailable for the 2.6.22 kernels. As before, it hangs the system so badly that only a manual

Bug#445322: xserver-xorg: xserver dies when switching sessions

2007-10-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.2-5 Severity: normal This bug is causing me big problems, but I guess it's peculiar to my setup or use (perhaps few people use multiple KDE sessions). It appeared perhaps a month or two ago. I use KDE and often have several user sessions running in different

Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2007-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Unfortunately, after the last upgrade of xorg the proprietary driver broke. So I tried the open-source one. It still doesn't work, locking up the entire system :( I'm using vesa for now. This was with ii xserver-xorg-video-nv1:2.0.2-1 I believe I backed out the proprietary

Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2007-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 00:44 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: Unfortunately, after the last upgrade of xorg the proprietary driver broke. Look at the bottom of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420177 It could help. Thanks so much for pointing that out

Bug#428918: xserver-xorg-core: xorg.conf man page: contradictory and incomplete info

2007-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-6 Severity: minor 1. The man page for xorg.conf, in the Files section, under FontPath, says When this entry is not specified in the config file, the server falls back to the compiled-in default font path, which contains the following font path

Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2007-06-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 08:17 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: reopen 342817 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reassign 342817 xserver-xorg-video-nv thank you Ross Boylan wrote: I request that this remain open. Done, and changed the submitter's address to the one above. Thank you. I tried several

Bug#342817: closed by Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver)

2007-05-24 Thread Ross Boylan
it is reasonable to expect me to do so. Testing a new version is non-trivial, since I have to shut everything down to do so. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397956: xserver-xorg-core: Xorg man page claims to be for X11R6

2006-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.1.1-10 Severity: minor The first line of the Xorg.1 man page says Name Xorg - X11R6 X Server I take it from this news item xserver-xorg-core (1:1.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low * With the latest updates of Xorg, we have transitioned from X11R6 to

Bug#373691: Close?

2006-06-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:43:51PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 06:35 -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: The need to conflict with guitar was already reported in #368161. A conflict with xext was added in 1:7.0.21. cbb isn't in stable and testing, so open a new report

Bug#373691: 3 more packages x11-common needs to conflict with

2006-06-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: normal Severity note: this problem blocks the upgrade of X11 and any other packages that happen to be upgrade targets at the same time. It may leave the user without a functioning X. So it may warrant higher severity. On the other hand, the

Bug#332369: 332369 [332367]: 3 times asked for manual mouse configuration

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
I experienced what seems to be a slight variant of this problem, and the one reported in 332367, when upgrading to xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11. I believe this was an initial install of that package (i.e., upgrade from xfree), and the first time I switched from xfree. I've excerpted parts of the

Bug#342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:26:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:53:54AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: Ross, I've not worked on RC3 mainly because there didn't seem to be a need for it. I'll try and get RC3 in to the svn repo and uploaded to experimental ASAP so you

Bug#342817: 342817: Apparent hang of X.org with the nv open source driver

2005-12-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Ross, I've not worked on RC3 mainly because there didn't seem to be a need for it. I'll try and get RC3 in to the svn repo and uploaded to experimental ASAP so you can test whether or not it fixes your issue. - David Nusinow Thanks. Will it be safe to install the debs from experimental, or

Bug#342817: No joy in X land

2005-12-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:43:20PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: Having managed to get my hard disk detected, I'm on to the next problem. When I do a regular boot, my system appears dead: The screen is black. There is no response to any keyboard or mouse activity, including ctl-alt-del, ctl-alt

Thanks

2004-10-11 Thread Ross Boylan
to you. So, developers/packagers, I don't know quite how you do it, but thanks for all your work. Ross Boylan

Bug#213501: Status check

2004-04-16 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm happy to report this problem has gone away with the upgrade to 4.3. Perhaps it's time to close this bug? On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 23:38, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:18:22PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I notice this bug is tagged moreinfo, unreproducible, but also

Bug#213501: Status check

2004-02-18 Thread Ross Boylan
I notice this bug is tagged moreinfo, unreproducible, but also upstream. In reviewing this bug, and the ones it is merged with, I don't see where the moreinfo and unreproducible came from. Unfortunately, it continues to be very reproducible for me. I've also received no requests for more info

problems with debian/rules checksource in 4.2.1-15

2003-12-31 Thread Ross Boylan
I just apt-get source xterm, which pulled in 4.2.1-15. After a look at the documents, I tried debian/rules checksource But this ran into trouble at Applying patch debian/patches/001a_damn_cpp_3.3_to_hell.diff...done. Applying patch debian/patches/001b_m68k_haslinuxinput_too.diff...dry run

Bug#225450: (xrender: incomplete sentence in changelog) error details

2003-12-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Here are some of the errors I referred to in my original report: /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts

Bug#225450: xrender: incomplete sentence in changelog

2003-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xrender Severity: minor The changelog entry for xrender (0.8.3-5) includes the sentence This prevents libxrender1 from being removed because. I think you left out the reason. By the way, while trying to build KDE, libtool gave me some warnings about libxrender (sorry, the details are

Bug#87650: acknowledged by developer ([frankmurphy@fmailbox.com: Bug#87650: Fixed in 4.2.1-13])

2003-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
This is just to confirm that it works for me too, even with the slightly earlier 4.2.1-12.1 version. I can't really tell what the problem or fix was, but I guess upstream took care of it. Thanks to all.

Bug#213501: xfonts-scalable: xftcache segfault in postinst

2003-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xfonts-scalable Version: 4.2.1-11 Severity: important Justification: fails to install This is almost certainly the same problem as reported in 143476 and 16457 for this package and 117225 for xbase-clients on xftcache. However, since the line number of the failure is a bit different, and

Bug#213501: xfonts-scalable: xftcache segfault in postinst

2003-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: xfonts-scalable Version: 4.2.1-11 Severity: important Justification: fails to install This is almost certainly the same problem as reported in 143476 and 16457 for this package and 117225 for xbase-clients on xftcache. However, since the line number of the failure is a bit different, and

Font references and info

2003-07-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and thought it might be useful to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think I've found out. I was inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't

Font references and info

2003-07-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and thought it might be useful to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think I've found out. I was inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't

FreeType

2001-02-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Is there any chance that freetype should be working in woody? I just did a dist-upgrade (with a lot of rough spots) and am not having much luck with it or other proportional fonts. My test case is xman, since I noticed it got much better when I installed the true-type font server in olden days

FreeType

2001-02-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Is there any chance that freetype should be working in woody? I just did a dist-upgrade (with a lot of rough spots) and am not having much luck with it or other proportional fonts. My test case is xman, since I noticed it got much better when I installed the true-type font server in olden days