X start-up delay (was: current testing)

2016-12-14 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for the suggestion, Felix, although I'm not quite ready to levy my scorn and blame on KDE (yet). Since my last post, it turns out that the full KDE desktop DOES start, but it takes an excruciating amount of time (more on that in a second). systemd, systemd-analyze and journald report noth

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 17:20 (UTC-0500): The Intel package driver was already purged from my system. I tried reinstalling it to no use. Purged xwayland, too (which I don't use but nevertheless installed). No help. I've also checked dmesg, messages, Xorg.0.log & syslog and syslog an

Re: Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
The Intel package driver was already purged from my system. I tried reinstalling it to no use. Purged xwayland, too (which I don't use but nevertheless installed). No help. I've also checked dmesg, messages, Xorg.0.log & syslog and syslog and found nothing out of the ordinary in those logs. It just

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 12:14 (UTC-0500): Thank you for the references, Felix. Unfortunately, nothing you sent is applicable because SDDM doesn't even start in the first place. Computer goes unresponsive when it Which Intel chipset/CPU model do you have? Skylake? Lotsa troubles

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 12:52 (UTC-0500): Thank you, Hans. My laptop has an Intel chipset, so nvidia doesn't apply. I think the recommended driver for my chipset is the framebuffer or vesa device, but I may try reinstalling the Intel driver to see if that fixes it. Maybe the appro

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you, Hans. My laptop has an Intel chipset, so nvidia doesn't apply. I think the recommended driver for my chipset is the framebuffer or vesa device, but I may try reinstalling the Intel driver to see if that fixes it. On 13 December 2016 at 12:37, Hans wrote: > Note, that SDDM does not work

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Hans
Note, that SDDM does not work with the proprietrary nvidia drivers. This maybe will not be fixed, as this behavior is documented since almost a year. Hans

Re: Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for the references, Felix. Unfortunately, nothing you sent is applicable because SDDM doesn't even start in the first place. Computer goes unresponsive when it tries to start X and then I have to force shut down. I've been able to start - just - by booting into multi-user.target and mask

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Yvan Masson
hould never break :-) Regards, Yvan Le mardi 13 décembre 2016 à 05:16 -0500, Felix Miata a écrit : > Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 04:46 (UTC-0500): > > > on Sunday I upgraded the xserver and wayland packages to > > their current testing version. Now my computer fr

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Felix Miata
Borden Rhodes composed on 2016-12-13 04:46 (UTC-0500): on Sunday I upgraded the xserver and wayland packages to their current testing version. Now my computer freezes or hangs when it tries to start KDE/SDDM. Can't switch into consoles and the only option is to hard power off. Seems to

Re: current testing

2016-12-13 Thread Borden Rhodes
imply have more systemic issues which will take a lot more effort to fix. For example, on Sunday I upgraded the xserver and wayland packages to their current testing version. Now my computer freezes or hangs when it tries to start KDE/SDDM. Can't switch into consoles and the only option is to

current testing

2016-12-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello after a long absence. Following up (in a sense) on the recent thread about the wisdom of mixing elements from the stable and testing/unstable distributions, I wanted to ask about how stable current testing is. I used to run the testing distribution as a matter of course, but have been too

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7 - SOLVED

2011-10-25 Thread S Scharf
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:50 AM, S Scharf wrote: > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > distribution, but by > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia > release of myth for > old-stable was 0.23.1 which

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread S Scharf
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > > distribution, but by > > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The las

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread David Sastre
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > distribution, but by > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia > release of myth for > old-stable was

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > distribution, but by > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia > release of myth for > old-stable was

Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread S Scharf
I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing distribution, but by myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia release of myth for old-stable was 0.23.1 which is incompatible with running the available 0.24 front end on testing. I have

Re: current testing (etch) netinst iso

2006-03-01 Thread noc ops
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 11:07, noc ops wrote: > >>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >> >>is the above link correct or should i be looking elsewhere? > > > This is something you could have answered with Google. > http://cdimage.debian.org/ --

Re: current testing (etch) netinst iso

2006-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 11:07, noc ops wrote: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > is the above link correct or should i be looking elsewhere? This is something you could have answered with Google. http://cdimage.debian.org/ -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk):

current testing (etch) netinst iso

2006-03-01 Thread noc ops
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ is the above link correct or should i be looking elsewhere? regards, /virendra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]