On 05/24/2012 10:43 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > What happens with the new kernel is that it boots, but at the end of the > boot sequence, it gives me a login screen that invites me to enter my > user name. The screen seems subtly malformed -- it looks as if it has > been stretched horizontally, and the little wheel that marks the mouse > position is an ellipse.
This sounds like you're missing xserver-xorg-video-intel and are falling back to -vesa or something. Failing that, maybe a wrong boot option (do not disable KMS ... recent Xorg needs that!) > But the real problem comes when I actually try > to log in. It is totally unresponsive to the keyboard and the mouse. This sounds like you are missing xserver-xorg-input-evdev. It used to be that -input-kbd and -input-synaptics handled keyboard and touchpad/mouse, but now evdev handles everything. I'm not sure why the problems appear to you be related to the kernel. It sounds to me much more likely that they are Xorg-related. That being said, modern Xorg and kernel work in close concert with each other so that a mismatch in versions and/or packages installed can lead to strange behaviours such as you reported. Always pay careful attention when doing upgrades as to which packages apt/aptitude says will be removed. Make sure it makes sense. Doubly so when you're running testing or unstable. Ben _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
