On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:10:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > >>On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>>There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not > >>>brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X stack to > >>>sid, I would recommend trying a Live CD like Knoppix 6.4 or Grml 10.12 > >>>first. Both come with kernel 2.6.36 and a newer nouveau snapshot from > >>>August 2010. > >>> > >>I tried with a squeeze live CD and got similar results. I wasn't able > >>to check the logs, though, because the whole machine was locked up. I > >>did manage to get a rainbow screen and a real mouse pointer. > >> > >>I am downloading Knoppix 6.4.4 now. > >> > >Same results with Knoppix 6.4.4. Rainbow striped screen, mouse pointer, > >and unresponsive system. I couldn't even ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a > >terminal. > > > > Is this a new computer? (Had something similar happen on my wife's > new PC. memtest86+ showed lots of errors, and removing one of the > DIMMs made everything work properly.) > It's an old computer, but new to me. I will run memtest86+ tonight. Thanks for the idea.
For anyone following along, this is a MythTV frontend machine that had Lenny installed. I moved the hard drive into a newer machine (1.7GHz P4), and upgraded to Squeeze. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110220152234.ga17...@aurora.owens.net
