On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> writes: >> On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> 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 together haphazardly. That, at >>> least, describes the upper portion of the screen. Maybe around 75%. >> >> Sounds like a display driver issue. ISTR getting this same problem >> many years ago. > > I guess if you had a glimmer of memory about how you went about > tracking it down... you would have said so eh?
Yes. The only sliver was "upgrade to sid, or the latest xorg-driver you can lay hands on". The fact that it happens before startx is run, is perhaps due to some of the graphics driver stack now being in the Linux kernel. Good luck again Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnsry+vbexvsj54h1bnorjc0zmdtj8g858mc-ebrcsgy...@mail.gmail.com
