Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 15:53:43 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 06 apr 21, 12:00:53, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 23:17:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I d

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 15:53:43 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 06 apr 21, 12:00:53, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 23:17:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 apr 21, 12:00:53, Brian wrote: > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 23:17:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > >

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 23:17:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > > > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > > > hardware could require non-free firmware. However, do

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Apr 2021 at 22:54:37 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > > > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > > hardware could require non-free firmware. However, does a d-i carrying > > such firmware ever make any attempt to ins

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-04-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 27 mar 21, 10:48:43, Brian wrote: > > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > hardware could require non-free firmware. However, does a d-i carrying > such firmware ever make any attempt to install it? As I understand it, > the installer is designed to probe for a

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 27 Mar 2021 at 11:20:21 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 10:00 AM didier gaumet > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > The Debian installer in graphic mode seems to rely on a VESA/VGA driver > > rather than a driver dedicated to the hardware detected? > > on my laptop, I j

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 10:00 AM didier gaumet wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian installer in graphic mode seems to rely on a VESA/VGA driver > rather than a driver dedicated to the hardware detected? > on my laptop, I just booted an USB Debian 10 installer key and it was > the vga16fb module that w

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, The Debian installer in graphic mode seems to rely on a VESA/VGA driver rather than a driver dedicated to the hardware detected? on my laptop, I just booted an USB Debian 10 installer key and it was the vga16fb module that was loaded

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Doug Windle composed on 2021-03-26 15:56 (UTC-0500): > > > The embedded VGA compatible controller is a Matrox G200eW3 102b:0536 rev 04 > > Was package xserver-xorg-video-mga installed before adding those repos? Your > onboard GPU is a special beast, an update of a very very

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:48:43AM +, Brian wrote: [..] > I did previously note the reiteration and acknowledge that video > hardware could require non-free firmware. However, does a d-i carrying > such firmware ever make any attempt to install it? As I understand it, > the installer is desig

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 27 Mar 2021 at 09:04:14 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:40:53PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 17:01:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:40:53PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 17:01:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are e

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Felix Miata
Doug Windle composed on 2021-03-26 15:56 (UTC-0500): > The embedded VGA compatible controller is a Matrox G200eW3 102b:0536 rev 04 > I updated the package sources configuration file is to use the > apt-add-repository command and added the non-free package for all sources > and it now works!! > a

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 17:01:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are extremely common, > > > especially > > > if one installed with th

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are extremely common, especially > > if one installed with the "official" images, rather than the "unofficial" > > ones which contain no

RE: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Doug Windle
R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:36:08PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > The Dell R440 does not have GPU and it is using only the onboard > graphics to drive the display. That's good. It's probably an Intel chipset. Now, use lspci -nn and dmesg | gre

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:07:26PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > > I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The > > install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS > > install and upon r

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:36:08PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > The Dell R440 does not have GPU and it is using only the onboard graphics to > drive the display. That's good. It's probably an Intel chipset. Now, use lspci -nn and dmesg | grep -i firmware to see what you need to do.

RE: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Doug Windle
Message- From: Greg Wooledge Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 2:22 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:07:26PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:07:26PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The > install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS > install and upon reboot/startup of OS with GNOME I get a tearing/scrambling > of the l

Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-26 Thread Doug Windle
I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS install and upon reboot/startup of OS with GNOME I get a tearing/scrambling of the local display. The local display works fine thru the startup of the D

Linux 5.x and display issues

2020-06-03 Thread EoflaOE ViceCity
It seems that Linux 5.x makes the display corrupted as it goes to the X server. Plymouth is not affected, though. Even after activating the X server using startx, the display glitch won't go away. The exact same thing happened with the updated Linux 5.6.0-2 PAE version. Here are the pictures: 1. h

Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/22/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > As you say, get the fonts. > > Pointer: > lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude search ttf | grep gujarati > i A ttf-gujarati-fonts - transitional dummy package > lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude search ttf | grep hindi > lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude search ttf | grep tamil > i

Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 15:03:57 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional > languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the > thing implemented. > > Details: > Browser : Chromium, Iceweasel, and Google Chrome Stable

Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-21 Thread Richard Owlett
Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the thing implemented. A starting point for adding fonts to a Debian installation would be: https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts htt

Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Himanshu Shekhar: > > I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional > languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the > thing implemented. Just use your friendly package manager to find the right fonts to install: $ apt-cache search font tamil fonts

Regarding language display issues

2015-10-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the thing implemented. Details: Browser : Chromium, Iceweasel, and Google Chrome Stable Languages tried : Indian languages - Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, etc. as wel

Re: display issues

2013-03-10 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hi Michael, > On 03/10/2013 07:23 PM, Michael wrote: >> My display is skewed to the right about 1/4 inch. While in a terminal >> window, I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it comes back to the >> prompt after about two seconds. On 11 March 2013 00:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > It would be h

Re: display issues

2013-03-10 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/10/2013 07:23 PM, Michael wrote: Debian 6.0.7 gdm3 LG Flatron monitor model W2253VP My display is skewed to the right about 1/4 inch. While in a terminal window, I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it comes back to the prompt after about two seconds. I rebooted and logged into r

display issues

2013-03-10 Thread Michael
Debian 6.0.7 gdm3 LG Flatron monitor model W2253VP My display is skewed to the right about 1/4 inch. While in a terminal window, I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it comes back to the prompt after about two seconds. I rebooted and logged into root terminal and the same results occur

Re: Display issues

1999-05-15 Thread deblists
On 13 May, Pollywog wrote: > > On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from >> different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. >> To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. > > I dislike having xdm start when

Re: Display issues

1999-05-14 Thread add|ct|on
e.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user list Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Display issues > > On 13-May-99 Brant Wells

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread flip
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:29:14PM -0500, André Bell wrote: I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it takes so long to load on a 486, let alone launch another program within fvwm. I waited a half an hour for a game to load -- don't want to do that again... Is there a way to launch x

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 12 May 1999, André Bell wrote: > Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of > these errors: > >- unable to open display >- cannot connect to X server You get those errors because X is not running. Hmmm, (since you don't want a window manager runn

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread André Bell
Just to make sure I understand, you mean I need to, 1) run startx (which for me launches fvwm) 2) start xterm from within fvwm 3) open the hidden file $HOME/.xinitrc and edit the xterm line 4) then try to run the X programs from within fvwm? I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: > So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from > different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. > To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. I dislike having xdm start when I start the machine, so I removed the

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 May, Pollywog wrote about "Re: Display issues" > > On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: >> Howdy :) >> >> >> You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by >> going into >> your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a l

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Andrew Chung
> Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of > these errors: > >- unable to open display >- cannot connect to X server > It means just that - it can't connect to the x server. You need to run the programs either in xterm (or equivalent) or set the DISPLAY

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy :) > > > You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by > going into > your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your > window manager > (usually the last line) to the effect of > > xterm& > > and then t

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last line) to the effect of xterm& and then try to run those programs after you get into X. HTH,. B

Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread André Bell
Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of these errors: - unable to open display - cannot connect to X server I can run startx just fine. I don't get display errors there at all. But if I type xhost, xtv, or any other x application from the command line I