Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness writes: [...] >> Right, and do we know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ... > > Dear OP, do you know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. > ... my sliver of memory from ~6 or more years ago is not in any way > definitive, of course. >From lspci -vk 01:

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Aug 2013, Harry Putnam wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: > > > On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up > >> lately. > >> > >> Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. > > .. > >> It appears to be a mas

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> Yes. The only sliver was "upgrade to sid, ... > > Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. :) It was just a "sliver" :/ And another sliver: I think once I got it going (with the r

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Yes. The only sliver was "upgrade to sid, ... Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. > or the latest xorg-driver Apparently it was working at some stage and it was an UPGRADE which CAUSED the OP's problem? So upgradi

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: >> On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up >>> lately. >>> >>> Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. >> .. >>> It appears to be a mashup of the gr

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness writes: > On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up >> lately. >> >> Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. > .. >> It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light blue with white >> scrol

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up > lately. > > Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. .. > It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light blue with white > scroll). and made into tiles mashed toge

A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. I boot to console out of long habit, using startx when I want X, so with this peculiar phenomena I can't login to console. It appears to be something al