On 10/23/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Lange wrote:
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400
"James P. Wallen" <jpwal...@comcast.net> wrote:
Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem.
It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It
was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since
I can't boot it to usable state, I can't (easily) find out
exactly which video it uses.
It's probably destine for re-installation anyway. I was just
surprised to see such a failure occur after upgrade.
If the device has worked with other kernel versions before, you
could boot from an USB drive, do a chroot and install a kernel that
works, this should be a pretty straightforward procedure.
Thanks, Michael. Yes, I posted originally from another e-mail
account, so I'm sorry for any confusion that may have caused in
the thread. I am planning to boot from a live image on USB key
to try chrooting onto the system drive to fix it. I'll probably
try update-grub first just in case something weird happened to
grub-pc during that part of the upgrade. I could install a
different kernel, but I'd prefer working on the system before
doing that to see if there's a way to make the current kernel in
testing work.
I'm kind of surprised that a minor kernel change of this type
(probably) resulted in this problem. I'm not sure just what
Debian's policy on kernel upgrades is. With major version
changes, I think, the upgrade process leaves the old kernel in
place so you can fall back on it if the new one fails. But minor
revisions to the kernel just install the new kernel in place of
the old one. I only noticed this change in upgrade policy -- if
that is, indeed, what it is -- over the past couple of years.
This computer is definitely a corner case hardware-wise. The
straight replacement of the kernel seems to have backfired in
this case for this particular machine.
Many thanks for your suggestion.
And if anyone has seen a bug report that might be pertinent, I'd
appreciate a pointer. I've searched briefly, but found nothing.
Regards,
JP