Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 22/07/2019 21.52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 iul 19, 18:41:01, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> Orthogonally, you may also want to investigate the use of >> setupcon(1) and the configuration file console-setup(5) to set >> alternative, more readable font. The configuration file is >> stored in

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 iul 19, 18:41:01, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Orthogonally, you may also want to investigate the use of > setupcon(1) and the configuration file console-setup(5) to set > alternative, more readable font. The configuration file is > stored in /etc/default/console-setup. Or just run 'dpkg

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 22/07/2019 11.57, Felix Miata wrote: > ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-22 04:37 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks, Felix. :) It works, and I could get used to it. :) Yet it's not >> the same thing that was there before, with 'nomodeset' in the command >> line. It now takes up all the displa

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-22 04:37 (UTC-0400): > Thanks, Felix. :) It works, and I could get used to it. :) Yet it's not > the same thing that was there before, with 'nomodeset' in the command > line. It now takes up all the display real estate, stretching from > side-to-side,

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread hobie
> ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-21 20:13 (UTC-0400): > >> my console is no longer 80x25, the way I want it; it's something much >> smaller, >> pretty much impossible for me to read. > > At 1600x900 you're seeing 200x56 with the standard 16x8 font. > >> Many thanks, Etienne, Alexander,

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-21, Felix Miata wrote: > >> What the heck is this all about...?? > > IME, problems with random screen colors typically indicates RAM trouble. If > you > I had a CRT monitor once that died psychedelically. So did Aldous Huxley. But I digress. -- “We are all in the gutter, but some

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-21 20:13 (UTC-0400): > my console is no longer 80x25, the way I want it; it's something much smaller, > pretty much impossible for me to read. At 1600x900 you're seeing 200x56 with the standard 16x8 font. > Many thanks, Etienne, Alexander, Felix, Carl,

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread hobie
> On 21/07/2019 22.04, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> Thanks. :) Result: no observable change. Thankfully, my console's still >> at 80x25. But the shift to psychedelic colors is still there, too. What the heck is this all about...?? > Greetings, > That is a good question. What does your kern

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-21 16:04 (UTC-0400): > Thanks. :) Result: no observable change. Thankfully, my console's still > at 80x25. But the shift to psychedelic colors is still there, too. > What the heck is this all about...?? IME, problems with random screen colors typic

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 21/07/2019 22.04, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > Thanks. :) Result: no observable change. Thankfully, my console's still > at 80x25. But the shift to psychedelic colors is still there, too. > > What the heck is this all about...?? Greetings, That is a good question. What does your kerne

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-21 Thread hobie
> hobie, on 2019-07-20 : >> Thanks. :) I have a faint memory of inserting 'nomodeset' long years >> ago >> in the interest of keeping my console screen at 80x25. >> >> cat /proc/cmdline >> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-[...] root=UUID=[...] ro nomodeset reboot=pci >> quiet >

Re: [SPAM] Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-20 Thread Étienne Mollier
hobie, on 2019-07-20 : > Thanks. :) I have a faint memory of inserting 'nomodeset' long years ago > in the interest of keeping my console screen at 80x25. > > cat /proc/cmdline > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-[...] root=UUID=[...] ro nomodeset reboot=pci quiet There

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-19 Thread hobie
> Hi, > > hobie, on 2019-07-19 : >> dpkg -l | grep -iE 'amd-graphics|amdgpu|\|fglrx|radeon' >> ii firmware-amd-graphics [...] >> ii libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 [...] >> ii libdrm-radeon1:amd64 [...] >> ii radeontop [...] >> ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu [...] >> ii xserv

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-19 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi, hobie, on 2019-07-19 : > dpkg -l | grep -iE 'amd-graphics|amdgpu|\|fglrx|radeon' > ii firmware-amd-graphics [...] > ii libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 [...] > ii libdrm-radeon1:amd64 [...] > ii radeontop [...] > ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu [...] > ii xserver-xorg-vide

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-19 Thread hobie
> hobie, on 2019-07-17: >> I did the edit you suggested - changing the *.si to *.cik on that second >> readeon reference - but can't tell if anything was affected by it. Psychedelic colors still return on leaving the desktop and coming back to >> it, and output of inxi -Gxxxz also appears the same:

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-17 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 17.07.2019 3:52, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On 14.07.2019 12:02, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: > ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I d

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-17 Thread Étienne Mollier
hobie, on 2019-07-17: > I did the edit you suggested - changing the *.si to *.cik on that second > readeon reference - but can't tell if anything was affected by it. > Psychedelic colors still return on leaving the desktop and coming back to > it, and output of inxi -Gxxxz also appears the same: >

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-16 Thread hobie
> On 14.07.2019 12:02, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): > Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't > really understand it. Xorg seems to have unl

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.07.2019 12:02, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): >>> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't really understand it. Xorg seems to have unloaded t

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Carl Fink
On 7/14/19 11:47 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Cindy Sue Causey composed on 2019-07-14 06:47 (UTC-0400): Psychedelic sounds fun as a user CHOICE. I was hoping for a printscreen. That's odd that it printed normal. I'm trying to wrap my head around the computer's logic of how that would happen. Sounds

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Felix Miata
Cindy Sue Causey composed on 2019-07-14 06:47 (UTC-0400): > Psychedelic sounds fun as a user CHOICE. I was hoping for a > printscreen. That's odd that it printed normal. I'm trying to wrap my > head around the computer's logic of how that would happen. Sounds like a coincidence of hardware failur

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/14/19, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: >> ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): >> >>> Where would I find "AMDGPU" and how would I get Xorg to use it? >> These should cover it: >> apt purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-v

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-14 03:02 (UTC-0400): > I find old files in /etc/modprobe.d: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Nov 29 2016 amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Apr 28 2011 i915-kms.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 May 15 2017 intel-microcode-b

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread Felix Miata
Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2019-07-14 11:48 (UTC+0500): > Felix Miata wrote: > To install "firmware-amd-graphics" package is a good suggestion. > But chances are high that removal of *-ati and *-radeon packages will > also remove Desktop Environment, because those packages are part of > "

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-14 Thread hobie
> On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: >> ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): >> >>> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't >>> really understand it. Xorg seems to have unloaded the radeon >>> driver...? >>> Graphics: Device-1: AMD Kav

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.07.2019 4:20, Felix Miata wrote: > ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't >> really understand it. Xorg seems to have unloaded the radeon driver...? >> Graphics: Device-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread hobie
>> >>> >> >> Whoa! I tried to take screenshots so folks could see what I've >> >> been trying to describe. Shot of normal screen turns out as >> >> expected. Shot of >> >> psychedelic screen turns out ... identical to shot of normal >> >> screen!!! In >> >> other words, what's present in graphi

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread Felix Miata
ho...@rumormillnews.com composed on 2019-07-13 18:07 (UTC-0400): > Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lot of information here but I don't > really understand it. Xorg seems to have unloaded the radeon driver...? > Graphics: Device-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK > driver: N/A

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread hobie
> On Sb, 13 iul 19, 04:14:52, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> > >> Thanks -- the brand is AOC, connected via VGA cable > > I've seen such interesting effects when a VGA cable was not connected > properly. > > You might want to check the cable and connection at both ends. > > Kind regards, > Andre

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread hobie
> On 13.07.2019 13:14, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 > ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> Follow

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 iul 19, 04:14:52, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > > > Thanks -- the brand is AOC, connected via VGA cable I've seen such interesting effects when a VGA cable was not connected properly. You might want to check the cable and connection at both ends. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wi

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.07.2019 13:14, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 >> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> >>> Following recent

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread Joe
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:14:52 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > > On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 > >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >>> > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 > > ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread hobie
> On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 > ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >> Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic >> col

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.07.2019 12:44, ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 >> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic > colors >

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread hobie
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 > ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic colors on my XFCE desktop, making it nearly impossible to read anythin

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-13 Thread hobie
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 > ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 >>> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >>> Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic colors on my XFCE desktop, making it nearly impossible to read anythin

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-12 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:22:55 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 >> ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >> >>>Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic colors >>>on my XFCE desktop, making it nearly impossible to read anything >>>on-scree

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-12 Thread hobie
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 > ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: > >>Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic colors >>on my XFCE desktop, making it nearly impossible to read anything >>on-screen. >> >>Normally I'd have display set for 1024x768. I've found I can get n

Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

2019-07-12 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400 ho...@rumormillnews.com wrote: >Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic colors >on my XFCE desktop, making it nearly impossible to read anything >on-screen. > >Normally I'd have display set for 1024x768. I've found I can get normal >col