On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:55:11 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > On 03/07/12 18:02, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Is the same when you login with a fresh-new created user? >> >> In principle I don't see it as a VGA driver problem :-? >> >> Anyway, you can check the driver in use from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> and also when running "lspci -vv" (scroll down for the VGA card and >> look for the "kernel driver in use" line). >> >> > I'll have a go and report back - the machine is at a museum where I > volunteer so I only go at weekends.
Thats what's "ssh -X" is for, but wait... in a museum? Is the computer that old? > If its not a driver problem how come now I've brought the hard disk home > and put it in a machine here with a PCI Matrox card from 1996 Gnome > fallback mode displays perfectly? Well, given the nature of the problem you first reported (GNOME look showing like an old or uncomplete GTK+ style) with no additional information it did not look like a driver problem but another thing, I mean, for a driver problem I would expected something like your display showing small dots (noise) or lines in the screen, flickering, windows wrongly positioned or something like that. By running the tests I mentioned (you can login with a new user, read from the X logs and also the "~/.xsession-errors" file...) you could have a better understanding on what can be happening with the museum's computer. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jt1n4s$3jh$1...@dough.gmane.org
