Hi Paul Sorry for my late reply. On most occasions when this bug has arisen I have been able to log in and everything loads fine. A couple of times the gnome panel has not appeared and I had to reboot my laptop. Just so you know, I have never uses an additional monitor with this laptop.
Here is the output from xrandr you wanted. Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x41 Timestamp: 51004 Subpixel: unknown Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (0x45) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm Identifier: 0x42 Timestamp: 51004 Subpixel: horizontal rgb Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0 Brightness: 1.0 Clones: CRTC: 1 CRTCs: 1 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: EDID: 00ffffffffffff0030e4300200000000 00130103802213780a62259f5d579b25 19505400000001010101010101010101 0101010101013e1c56a0500016303020 350058c2100000190000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000fe004c 4720446973706c61790a2020000000fc 004c503135365748322d544c41410038 BACKLIGHT: 7 (0x00000007) range: (0,7) Backlight: 7 (0x00000007) range: (0,7) scaling mode: Full supported: None Full Center Full aspect 1366x768 (0x45) 72.3MHz -HSync -VSync *current +preferred h: width 1366 start 1414 end 1446 total 1526 skew 0 clock 47.4KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 776 total 790 clock 60.0Hz 1360x768 (0x46) 84.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1360 start 1432 end 1568 total 1776 skew 0 clock 47.7KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 798 clock 59.8Hz 1360x768 (0x47) 72.0MHz +HSync -VSync h: width 1360 start 1408 end 1440 total 1520 skew 0 clock 47.4KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 790 clock 60.0Hz 1024x768 (0x48) 65.0MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.4KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.0Hz 800x600 (0x49) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz 800x600 (0x4a) 36.0MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.2KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.2Hz 640x480 (0x4b) 25.2MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.5KHz v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.9Hz DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x43 Timestamp: 51004 Subpixel: unknown Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x44 Timestamp: 51004 Subpixel: unknown Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: bottom margin: 37 (0x00000025) range: (0,100) right margin: 46 (0x0000002e) range: (0,100) top margin: 36 (0x00000024) range: (0,100) left margin: 54 (0x00000036) range: (0,100) mode: NTSC-M supported: NTSC-M NTSC-443 NTSC-J PAL-M PAL-N PAL 480p@59.94Hz 480p@60Hz 576p 720p@60Hz 720p@59.94Hz 720p@50Hz 1080i@50Hz 1080i@60Hz 1080i@59.94H On 13 October 2012 09:53, Paul Menzel <pm.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Dear Gregory, > > > Am Dienstag, den 09.10.2012, 23:48 +1300 schrieb Gregory Plummer: > > > I just want to check my reply to you was received? > > yes, I received your reply. Sorry, that it took me so long to reply. > > > I am not sure how to attach files in Google Groups and instead replied > > directly to your email address. > > That is not so good. The great thing about the Debian BTS is that you > can add comments by using the simple email. Just add the address > <689...@bugs.debian.org> to the CC list. (Just use reply to all in your > mailing program like Google Mail, but better Icedove or Evolution or > Mutt or ….) > > Additionally it would be great if you could adhere to the netiquette > [1]. Especially, please just sent plain text messages and *no* HTML and > please use the interleaved style in your replies. Lastly, you do not > need to compress log files. > > Reading your original report again and you wrote you are just seeing the > default background, is it alright after logging in (into GNOME?) or do > you have to reboot? I am asking because the `dmesg` log suggests you > were using that system for quite some time. > > Since I could not find anything suspicious in your log files, could you > please attach the `xrandr -q --verbose` output next time. Just seeing > the background and being able to log in sounds like, the system thinks a > monitor is attached and renders the windows there. > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette > (Google Mail is not that great either, as it does not allow to > deactivate automatic line wrapping.) > > PS: I am leaving the private conversion at the end for archival > purposes. Please delete in your next reply. > > > > On 4 October 2012 15:48, Gregory Plummer wrote: > > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > > > Thank you for your reply, it is nice to hear my bug report has been > > > reviewed. > > > > > > 1. The problem only occasionally arises so I would describe it > > > as intermittent. Sorry for my initial bad spelling :) I believe I > > started > > > with a fresh install of Debian 6.0.3 and have used the package > > manager to > > > stay up to date. Does this mean I have been upgraded as System > > Monitor > > > reads release 6.06. Initially I had not been using Debian all that > > much so > > > cannot say if this has been a problem from the get go. > > > > > > 2. The output of `dpkg -l gdm3` is: > > > > > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > > | > > > > > > > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > > > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > > > ||/ Name Version Description > > > > > > > > > > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > > > ii gdm3 2.30.5-6squeez Next generation GNOME Display > > Manager > > > > > > 3. I hope I have attached the correct files. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Gregory Plummer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org