Bug#625813: Update to vesa

2012-02-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-12-13 13:57, Thomas Thorne wrote: > After quite a long gap I have finally got around to changing from the nVidia > drivers to the vesa ones. I did try to use the Nouveau ones but they were > excluded by default and when I allowed the kernel module to be loaded my > system froze at boot

Bug#625813: Update to vesa

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas Thorne
Of course... now I have the vesa drivers running I might have some fun getting a Dual Output nVidia card to work in dual-head mode and if I cannot get two monitors working it will be hard to check for the problem. Any suggestions on where to look for vesa multi-monitor help? Tom - BlueArc Corpor

Bug#625813: Update to vesa

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas Thorne
After quite a long gap I have finally got around to changing from the nVidia drivers to the vesa ones. I did try to use the Nouveau ones but they were excluded by default and when I allowed the kernel module to be loaded my system froze at boot just as the warning comment said. (From my Xorg.0

Bug#625813: multihead system sometimes locks when awoken from screen saver using mouse

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Thorne
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.5+8 Severity: normal Same problem as before, I have not moved over to the non-nvidia drivers but I shall look to do so soon. -- Package-specific info: X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 27 2010 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg -

Bug#625813: xorg: New Driver

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Thorne
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.5+8 Severity: normal After having updated to the latest nvidia-driver the problem still seems to be present. I will investigate switching to the non-nvidia alternative as suggested previously. -- Package-specific info: X server symlink status: ---

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-31 Thread Thomas Thorne
Slight problem with my setup not matching our local Debian mirror but not that is fixed I updated to the unstable version easily using sudo apt-get -t unstable install nvidia-glx I can even confirm that the Nvidia settings panel thinks I am using the updated driver. I will set a reminder to

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-31 Thread Thomas Thorne
> Did you reboot after updating the driver? Or manually stop Xorg, unload > the old nvidia kernel module and restart X? > There should have been a debconf notice explaining this. I did keep an eye out for anything asking me to restart X or similar as I was expect it. I have not done that yet so

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-31 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-08-31 11:11, Thomas Thorne wrote: > Well I feel slightly foolish but plenty of searching has not provided > an asnwer I am confident in yet. What is the cleanest way for me to > update my nvidia driver to the one in testing? At present the most > clear instructions I can find are at > http

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-31 Thread Thomas Thorne
Well I feel slightly foolish but plenty of searching has not provided an asnwer I am confident in yet. What is the cleanest way for me to update my nvidia driver to the one in testing? At present the most clear instructions I can find are at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but th

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Thorne
2011 10:15 Cc: Thomas Thorne; 625...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state > Thomas Thorne (22/08/2011): >> Reoccurrence this morning, just the same as before but I am now using >> Synergy to share my keyboard with my windows mac

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
> Thomas Thorne (22/08/2011): >> Reoccurrence this morning, just the same as before but I am now using >> Synergy to share my keyboard with my windows machine instead. Just as >> before my mouse pointer between the two screen and only responds to >> mouse movments in a limited way. Only a black

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
reassign 625813 nvidia-glx thanks Thomas Thorne (22/08/2011): > Reoccurrence this morning, just the same as before but I am now using > Synergy to share my keyboard with my windows machine instead. Just as > before my mouse pointer between the two screen and only responds to > mouse movments in

Bug#625813: xorg: Reoccurrence with diagnostics while in the problem state

2011-08-22 Thread Thomas Thorne
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.5+8 Severity: normal Reoccurrence this morning, just the same as before but I am now using Synergy to share my keyboard with my windows machine instead. Just as before my mouse pointer between the two screen and only responds to mouse movments in a limited way. Only a

Bug#625813: Duplicate

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas Thorne
I have just spotted that bug #576183 looks a lot like this bug apart from the fact that this one only occurs after the screen has been powered off after beind idle but #576183 sounds like it happens all the time. The symptoms sound very

Bug#625813: Screen & Power Settings

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas Thorne
Now that I have got an xsession back I can confirm that me screen saver is set to Blank Screen, Regard the computer as idel after 9min, activate screensaver when computer is idel, Lock screen when screensaver is active and in power management my computer is set to never go to sleep and to put th

Bug#625813:

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas Thorne
My xorg.conf: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (pbuilder@c203) Tue May 18 07:56:38 UTC 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" 1600 460 InputDe

Bug#625813: Xorg: multihead system sometimes locks when awoken from screen saver using mouse

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas Thorne
Package: Xorg Version: 1:7.5+8 Severity: important When I get in after leaving my machine runnin overnight and clear the screen saver by moving the mouse the Xorg progress sometimes locks up. I have a system with two displays attached and it seems that this may be caused by moving the mouse from o