Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:23:47 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said: It's a pity this upgrade broke a pretty standard driver. Fair comment, but Debian do document this in the release notes. I would urge anyone upgrading to Squeeze to read the release notes (yeah, I know). -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
Hi Keith On 26/02/11 16:37, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:23:47 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said: It's a pity this upgrade broke a pretty standard driver. Fair comment, but Debian do document this in the release notes. I would urge anyone upgrading to Squeeze to read the release notes (yeah, I know). I'd never consider upgrading without following the release notes, but having read through them again I still can't see this mentioned - out of interest where is it? I'm not knocking Debian - the reason I like it is the slow release cycle and emphasis on robustness. I use it on four boxes, and always start with the least important one first and work up from there. In practice, every upgrade takes me months to get everything back to where it was, even with Debian. There was discussion a few months back on Arch Linux - rolling release did seem like quite a good idea. At least with that you reduce the chance of having dozens of things all broke at once after a dist upgrade. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:28:19 +, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said: out of interest where is it? I owe you an apology, Tim, sorry. It's mentioned here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#nonfree-firmware, but it doesn't explicitly state that the appropriate packages need to be installed. At work, we have our own upgrade notes, derived from the release notes and amended with our experience, and it is those notes that specifically state that the firmware packages may need to be installed. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
Hi Ralph On 25/02/11 01:19, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, I've upgraded a machine with ATI Rage128 from Lenny to Squeeze. The machine hangs (totally) on bringing up X, /var/log/X.0.log showing R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9, start -9, idle -9, Idle timed out, resetting engine for ever, so it's a driver problem. So far I've tried generating a new xorg.conf with Xorg -configure (no improvement). Driver is r128. Any advice much appreciated. Have you tried disabling all hardware acceleration, just to see if that improves things in the short term? See option NoAccel in r128(4). I found various complaints about previously working R128-driven cards stopping working after upgrades, but nothing coherent that looked like it would help. Had tried NoAccel, and various other possible options without success. Morning googling often seems to be better than end-of-day searching - Solution turned out to be apt-get firmware-linux-nonfree Xorg -configure Copied over new xorg.conf to /etc/X11 Edited Driver r128 to Driver ati It's a pity this upgrade broke a pretty standard driver. Thanks for your help! Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
Hi I've upgraded a machine with ATI Rage128 from Lenny to Squeeze. The machine hangs (totally) on bringing up X, /var/log/X.0.log showing R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9, start -9, idle -9, Idle timed out, resetting engine for ever, so it's a driver problem. So far I've tried generating a new xorg.conf with Xorg -configure (no improvement). Driver is r128. Any advice much appreciated. Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Xorg hangs on upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
Hi Tim, I've upgraded a machine with ATI Rage128 from Lenny to Squeeze. The machine hangs (totally) on bringing up X, /var/log/X.0.log showing R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9, start -9, idle -9, Idle timed out, resetting engine for ever, so it's a driver problem. So far I've tried generating a new xorg.conf with Xorg -configure (no improvement). Driver is r128. Any advice much appreciated. Have you tried disabling all hardware acceleration, just to see if that improves things in the short term? See option NoAccel in r128(4). I found various complaints about previously working R128-driven cards stopping working after upgrades, but nothing coherent that looked like it would help. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
