Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:53 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > As more examples of the symptoms, in Firefox, scrolling through my > email's Inbox list, is a little sluggish, however, scrolling through a > site that has images and other things (rt.com), I can scroll up and down > more smoothly. > In the Applicat

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:40 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > >> Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 >> is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you >> have the testing distribution menti

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Anil Duggirala
As more examples of the symptoms, in Firefox, scrolling through my email's Inbox list, is a little sluggish, however, scrolling through a site that has images and other things (rt.com), I can scroll up and down more smoothly. In the Applications Dropdown from the top bar in Gnome Classic, it someti

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 06:40 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > >> Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 >> is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you >> have the testing distribution menti

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Anil Duggirala
On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 > is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you > have the testing distribution mentioned in your sources.list file in > /etc/apt. I had ju

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/26/2017 09:38 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Ric Moore wrote: >> Please don't top post. You don't see anyone else doing that do you?? >> Take a clue. Ric > > Sorry for top-posting, I have taken a clue now. > I deactivated Animations in Gnome (Tweak Tool

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-26 Thread Anil Duggirala
On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 11:11 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > Please don't top post. You don't see anyone else doing that do you?? > Take a clue. Ric Sorry for top-posting, I have taken a clue now. I deactivated Animations in Gnome (Tweak Tool - Appearance), this appears to have helped, dragging windows

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/24/2017 08:57 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: Oh, and also, I did not find /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Please don't top post. You don't see anyone else doing that do you?? Take a clue. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance,

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
I am running the default Gnome player, Totem. I will install icewm when I am on a better connection, with dependencies, goes up to 48 MB. The following NEW packages will be installed: esound-common gconf-service gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-mime-data icewm icewm-common libaudiofile1 libbonobo2-0

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2017-05-24 16:54 (UTC-0400): > You'll need to do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" to bring in the 4.9.0-3-amd64 > kernel package, but I don't expect that will have any effect on your > current problem. Certainly possible. His kernel was compiled 30 March. -3 was compiled 3 May.

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
I dont know if people are being misled by the title in this thread and I should start a new thread. Gnome is working in my laptop since I installed Stretch, it is just not working well. please read only my previous message to this one, thanks, On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 04:00 PM, Henrique de Moraes

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Felix Miata wrote: > Once upon a time, Intel gfx did not need any firmware that was not part of a > default or minimal installation. :-( Nowadays it may actually requires BIOS/UEFI _and_ processor microcode updates as well. The BIOS/UEFI updates work around issues related to

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 03:43:43PM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > I have one more question, doing apt-get upgrade mentions > linux-image-amd64 is being "held back" I am currently on 4.9.0-2, could > this be related? You'll need to do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" to bring in the 4.9.0-3-amd64 kernel p

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
Hello everyone, thanks for your responses. To recap, I installed a fresh Stretch with Gnome, that is all I have done so far. Felix: xorg-xserver-video-intel is installed and shows up in dpkg -l grep intel: ii libdrm-intel1:amd64 2.4.74-1 amd64

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > All my Stretch installations are using /var/log/ for Xorg.#.log whether I use > startx (with or without a DM running) or not. All my openSUSEes are, and even > my > Fedoras IIRC. In stretch, startx uses /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you run

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2017-05-24 16:00 (UTC-0400): > A more common suggestion might be to verify that all of the necessary > firmware has been installed, especially if some of it is from non-free. > dmesg | grep -i firmware Requested >20 hours ago: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/0

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 03:38:38PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Given that that log contains no (EE) errors, switching to a different DE might > be a solution. Well, we knew that from the Subject: of the email. ;-) The message in the subject is unique to certain desktop environments, and indicates

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Felix Miata
Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-24 09:12 (UTC-0500): > hello, I pasted my Xorg log at https://paste.debian.net/938243 > Fungi: this is an Asus X441SA laptop, is this also mix and match laptop? > I did a clean install from Debian installer of Stretch, nothing is left > from previous Jessie. > sw

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:34:22AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > hello, I pasted my Xorg log at https://paste.debian.net/938243 > > [ 65.388] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian > 6th line down, is the new debian9rc installer same as Debian 8.8? > The official stretch installer

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Fungi4All
UTC Time: May 24, 2017 2:12 PM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm hello, I pasted my Xorg log at https://paste.debian.net/938243 [ 65.388] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6th line down, is the new debian9rc installer same as Debian 8.8? I assume jessie was installed and th

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
hello, I pasted my Xorg log at https://paste.debian.net/938243 Fungi: this is an Asus X441SA laptop, is this also mix and match laptop? I did a clean install from Debian installer of Stretch, nothing is left from previous Jessie. swithching *dm is still a valid idea in this case? thanks a lot, On

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 May 2017 at 07:57:17 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Oh, and also, I did not find /var/log/Xorg.0.log, $HOME/.local/share/xorg -- Brian.

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
Oh, and also, I did not find /var/log/Xorg.0.log, On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 07:52 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot for your replies. Yes I believe I dont have graphics > acceleration. My interface is sluggish. I believe I am playing video > with Totem, it has these mini freezes and then a

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot for your replies. Yes I believe I dont have graphics acceleration. My interface is sluggish. I believe I am playing video with Totem, it has these mini freezes and then after some while starts to freeze badly making it unwatchabel. the output from inxi -c0 -G Graphics: Card: Intel Ato

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Looking up 8086:22b1 finds the keyword Braswell, which provides the all > important date of introduction of it. It was introduced more than 8 months > after > Jessie, thus not supported by pure Jessie. > > Gnome *should* be working fi

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-23 Thread Felix Miata
Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-23 08:24 (UTC-0500): > I have upgrade to Stretch, and my system is loading the graphical > interface (Gnome). However, I believe my graphics are sluggish, video > playback at some points starts freezing and sometimes just becomes Playback of what? With which pla

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 May 2017 23:06:44 Felix Miata wrote: > Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-23 11:00 (UTC-0500): > > Lisi Reisz wrote on 2017-05-23 16:58 (UTC+0100): > >> What is your graphics card? > > > > Im not sure, this is the output from lspci > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel C

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-23 Thread Felix Miata
Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-23 11:00 (UTC-0500): > Lisi Reisz wrote on 2017-05-23 16:58 (UTC+0100): >> What is your graphics card? > Im not sure, this is the output from lspci > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device > [8086:22b1] (rev 21) > as I posted before

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-23 Thread Anil Duggirala
Im not sure, this is the output from lspci 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:22b1] (rev 21) as I posted before. On Tue, May 23, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 23 May 2017 14:24:49 Anil Duggirala wrote: > > Hello, > > I have upgrade to Stre

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 May 2017 14:24:49 Anil Duggirala wrote: > Hello, > I have upgrade to Stretch, and my system is loading the graphical > interface (Gnome). However, I believe my graphics are sluggish, video > playback at some points starts freezing and sometimes just becomes > unwatchable (it starts us

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-23 Thread Anil Duggirala
Hello, I have upgrade to Stretch, and my system is loading the graphical interface (Gnome). However, I believe my graphics are sluggish, video playback at some points starts freezing and sometimes just becomes unwatchable (it starts using up a lot of CPU power). In the recommendations here (https:

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 05:24 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: Thanks everyone for your responses. I did not expect such quick and full response. I also really don't believe it has anything to do with partitioning (Debian deleted the partitions and created exactly corresponding partitions with guided partitioning

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 May 2017 15:12:39 Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines > and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? If you are installing from scratch, yes. If you are upgrading, go straight from "stable" or "jessie" to "stretch", and don't bo

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot, thanks Micheal, On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 03:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > thanks a lot Fungi, > > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > > from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installe

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/22/2017 12:28 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > thanks a lot Fungi, > I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 > from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for > 'jessie', can I do that? > than

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
thanks a lot Fungi, I want to reinstall the whole system, so I will download Strech RC 3 from here https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/and then after finishing installation will change 'testing' for 'jessie', can I do that?thanks a lot, P.S. sorry for spamming your email Fungi On Mon,

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Kent West
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > > The only thing to fear is stability, or too much of it. I have run > stretch and sid (testing and unstable currently) and I get a sense that sid > is even lighter and more stable in hardware resources. With all the > fooling around I do I

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message Subject: Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome. UTC Time: May 22, 2017 1:54 PM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. I will follow your advice, and for the first time ever, use Debian Testing. I guess

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 09:12:39 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines > and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? Correct. You will get any updates to testing for a short while. Then it becomes stable (but still stretch). After that yo

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot Brian, so right after I install I can change all deb lines and replace 'testing' with 'stretch' ?? On Mon, May 22, 2017, at 09:05 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 22 May 2017 at 08:54:59 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > > Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. > > I will follow your advice, and f

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Brian
On Mon 22 May 2017 at 08:54:59 -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. > I will follow your advice, and for the first time ever, use Debian > Testing. I guess when Stretch is released I will be able to install > that, correct? So I will be able to go back to using a stable r

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks a lot Felix and Micheal. I will follow your advice, and for the first time ever, use Debian Testing. I guess when Stretch is released I will be able to install that, correct? So I will be able to go back to using a stable release right? I'm really afraid of testing, the whole reason I like D

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/21/2017 07:24 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > Thanks everyone for your responses. I did not expect such quick and full > response. I also really don't believe it has anything to do with > partitioning (Debian deleted the partitions and created exactly > corresponding partitions with guided part

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Felix Miata
Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-21 19:24 (UTC-0500): > More info: When I installed initially with LXDE, I had horrible graphics > and no touchpad, upon installing the Linux-image from backports (4.9), > these problems were resolved. I have tried installing Linux-image 4.9 > from backports (usin

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Anil Duggirala
Thanks everyone for your responses. I did not expect such quick and full response. I also really don't believe it has anything to do with partitioning (Debian deleted the partitions and created exactly corresponding partitions with guided partitioning). More info: When I installed initially with L

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 12:52 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:23 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: However, the OP's post does not mention anything of this nature. The OP deleted the existing Debian partition(s) leaving the existing Windows partition(s) alone. No mention was made of the ordering

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/21/2017 12:23 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 08:48 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> >> >> On 05/21/2017 05:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 08:48 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : No, yo

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/21/2017 05:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: >> >> >> On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : >>> > No, you should NOT have deleted the

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2017 à 12:48, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : Michael what I'm saying is if you have sda1,sda2,sda3, partitions and you delete sda2 partition, sda3 becomes sda2 and if you make a new partition, even in the same unused space it will become sda3. Bullshit again. Unless the partition table is im

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 03:25 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : No, you should NOT have deleted the partition, now your partition table is messed up. Bullshit. This

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Michael Milliman
On 05/21/2017 05:09 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : > >>> No, you should NOT have deleted the partition, now your partition table >>> is messed up. >> >> Bullshit. This is just a Gnome error. > > Unless

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/21/2017 12:57 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : No, you should NOT have deleted the partition, now your partition table is messed up. Bullshit. This is just a Gnome error. Unless you are deleting the last partition your partition table is going

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2017 à 03:40, Fungi4All a écrit : Original Message Subject: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome. Local Time: May 21, 2017 3:56 AM UTC Time: May 21, 2017 12:56 AM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I had

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2017 à 09:55, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : On 05/20/2017 05:56 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/20/2017 05:56 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think correctly) using the Debian installer partitione

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-20 Thread Felix Miata
Anil Duggirala composed on 2017-05-20 19:56 (UTC-0500): ... We can help you better if you can provide more information. When was your PC new? What make and model is it? Are you able to Ctrl-Alt-Fn and log in? If yes, try to show us output at least from: inxi -c0 -G or inxi -c0 -

Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-20 Thread Fungi4All
Original Message Subject: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome. Local Time: May 21, 2017 3:56 AM UTC Time: May 21, 2017 12:56 AM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE

Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-20 Thread Anil Duggirala
I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think correctly) using the Debian installer partitioner and choosing the Guided use largest continuous