Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-31 Thread António PT
Thanks! I didn't know there was such a project. 2010/1/28 Florian Reitmeir flor...@reitmeir.org Hi, http://snapshot.debian.net/ On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Sebastian wrote: I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:15:02PM -0500, David L. Craig wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the ... it as Kernel Modesetting Stuff (KMS). I don't know if that is

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-29 Thread David L. Craig
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:12:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: If you are running Debian testing/unstable, please subscribe and listen to what Developers are talking at debian-de...@lists.debian.org debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Ah, somehow I have overlooked d-d-a all these years.

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:54:37AM +, Sebastian wrote: I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, http://snapshot.debian.net/ On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Sebastian wrote: I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:06:01 -0500, David L. Craig wrote: 1. I have an S3Virage that incurred similar issues. I have backed up all my filesystems, freed up the space, and installed a fresh Lenny with good results so far. Hopefully I will not have time to debug further but if I do, I will

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread David L. Craig
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the svgatextmode package, recent Linux kernels have taken over direct control of the video hardware, and recent releases of X now make system calls to the kernel to change

Re: rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:15:02 -0500, David L. Craig wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the svgatextmode package, recent Linux kernels have taken over direct control of the video hardware, and recent

rollback X, SIS671/771

2010-01-27 Thread Sebastian
Hello all I have a SIS 671/771 graphics card in my laptop (Fujitsu Esprimo v5535) which has always given me grief. It was running smoothly with resolution up to 1024x800 however with a driver I downloaded from the net[1] on my debian squeeze/sid (apt prefers testing). After the xorg update from