Re: Tiny fonts, was Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-13 Thread songbird
David Wright wrote: ... > For 1280x720, you could try 1920x1080, or 960x540, according > to how large you want the characters. With a screen having > a wide aspect ratio, you might try 1600x900, 800x450, and > so on (ie native resolution ÷ small integer). thank you, i've already got that taken

Tiny fonts, was Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Mar 2022 at 08:44:10 (-0500), songbird wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Did you take a look into `dmesg -l err` and `Xorg.log` in this case? > > no, i didn't, too hard for me to see or sit to squint at the > screen to be able to read. the login prompt and screen fonts > are so

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: ... > Maybe this website can help with the console font size: > > https://www.linux.com/topic/desktop/how-change-your-linux-console-fonts/ interesting... after trying various things out and getting various fonts installed i found that simply changing

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 10/03/2022 14:44: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: songbird wrote: ... i did install the dummy package and uninstalled the intel but that did not leave me with a system that booted to the desktop so i put it back. Did you take a look into `dmesg -l err` and `Xorg.log` in this

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >>i did install the dummy package and uninstalled the intel >> but that did not leave me with a system that booted to the >> desktop so i put it back. >> > Did you take a look into `dmesg -l err` and `Xorg.log` in this case? no, i didn't, too

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
songbird wrote on 08/03/2022 16:35: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern Intel CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well here: Something like Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-09 Thread songbird
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-03-07 20:55:52 -0500, songbird wrote: >> right now it locks solid and i can't get a core file at all. >> all my log files are not giving me any clues either the Xorg >> one is the only one that's telling me anything relating to >> what is happening (some kind of

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-03-07 20:55:52 -0500, songbird wrote: > right now it locks solid and i can't get a core file at all. > all my log files are not giving me any clues either the Xorg > one is the only one that's telling me anything relating to > what is happening (some kind of IO issue). > > it happens

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-08 Thread songbird
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern Intel > CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well here: > > Something like > > Section "Device" >Identifier "Intel Graphics" >Driver "modesetting" >

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-08 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > You shouldn't even need to create that xorg.conf.d snippet. It should > just work automatically. removing the xserver-xorg-video-intel package left me with a command line only system. so i had to reinstall that. > You *will* however most likely need to install

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:07:19AM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern > Intel CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well > here: > > Something like > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Intel

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
As far as I know, the xserver-xorg-video-intel is deprecated for modern Intel CPUs. With an Intel Core i7 7700 the kernel `modesetting` works well here: Something like Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" EndSection in

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-07 Thread songbird
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-03-06 07:12:10 -0500, songbird wrote: >> when i search for this kind of problem on the internet i come >> up with: >> >> https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-why-am-i-getting-event-processing-lagging-behind-msg-in-ubuntu-20-10/ >> >> which says ignore it >> >>

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-07 Thread songbird
Johann Klammer wrote: ... > xserver-xorg-video-intel > update that one. if that doesn't help, already at the most current version in unstable. i can reinstall it without any problem. all done. > try > xserver-xorg-video-fbdev same as above. > and as alast try >

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-07 Thread Johann Klammer
On 03/06/2022 09:10 PM, songbird wrote: > Johann Klammer wrote: > ... >> Likely the xorg video driver. >> Try installing the alternatives possible for your hardware. >> avoid the closed source nvidias. >> They've had the hard lock ups since about 2000. >> nouveau and framebuffer ones will probably

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-03-06 07:12:10 -0500, songbird wrote: > when i search for this kind of problem on the internet i come > up with: > > https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-why-am-i-getting-event-processing-lagging-behind-msg-in-ubuntu-20-10/ > > which says ignore it > > while the following two give me the

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-06 Thread songbird
Johann Klammer wrote: ... > Likely the xorg video driver. > Try installing the alternatives possible for your hardware. > avoid the closed source nvidias. > They've had the hard lock ups since about 2000. > nouveau and framebuffer ones will probably work. hi, thanks for the hints, i just have

Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-06 Thread Johann Klammer
On 03/06/2022 01:20 PM, songbird wrote: > ok, i've finally had my computer lock up again while i've > set up the core dumps and i was hoping that i'd get an > actual core dump file to help narrow things down to a > specific programs, but no luck with that at all. > > system is running Debian

system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

2022-03-06 Thread songbird
ok, i've finally had my computer lock up again while i've set up the core dumps and i was hoping that i'd get an actual core dump file to help narrow things down to a specific programs, but no luck with that at all. system is running Debian Testing, updates applied each morning. desktop is MATE.