Bug#524280: Display broken beyond recognition after upgrade to 1:6.12.2-1

[Jacek Politowski]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 04:19:19PM +0200, Jacek Politowski wrote:

> As snapshot.debian.net seems inactive, only possible solution seems to
> be to downgrade all X stuff to testing distribution state.
> And it seems my last working setup was similar (or even exact) to
> what's left in testing, so this should help.

Ok, I've downgraded all/most of X stuff to Squeeze state.

Curiously, didn't help at first, when I started GDM after upgrade. But
after reboot (/sbin/reboot) everything works fine again, with
effectively my original configuration ("effectively", because
previously I didn't have DRI, NoAccel and R4xxATOM entries, now I have
them commented out).

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "pl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "AccelMethod"           "EXA"
        Option          "AccelDFS"              "on"
        Option          "DisplayPriority"       "HIGH"
#       Option          "DRI"                   "off"
#       Option          "NoAccel"               "true"
#       Option          "R4xxATOM"              "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
EndSection


Full aptitude log from downgrade operation:
[REMOVE, NOT USED] console-setup
[REMOVE, NOT USED] console-terminus
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libpciaccess0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libvolume-id0
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] apt
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] apt-utils
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] capplets-data
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] gnome-accessibility
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] gnome-core
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libept0
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] synaptic
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-input-all
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-input-wacom
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-all
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-apm
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-ark
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-ati
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-dummy
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-glint
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-i740
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-imstt
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-mga
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-nsc
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-nv
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-rendition
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-savage
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-sis
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-tga
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-trident
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-v4l
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-vesa
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-xorg-video-vga
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] xserver-common
[DOWNGRADE] x11-common 1:7.4+1 -> 1:7.3+18
[DOWNGRADE] xnest 2:1.6.1-1 -> 2:1.4.2-11
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xephyr 2:1.6.1-1 -> 2:1.4.2-11
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg 1:7.4+1 -> 1:7.3+18
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.1-1 -> 2:1.4.2-11
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.2.1-1 -> 1:2.0.8-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.3.2-3 -> 1:1.3.1-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.4.0-2 -> 1:1.3.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-chips 1:1.2.1-2 -> 1:1.2.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-cirrus 1:1.2.1-4 -> 1:1.2.1-1.lenny1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-i128 1:1.3.1-3 -> 1:1.3.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.7.0-1 -> 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-mach64 6.8.0+git20090201.d394e0b8-2 -> 6.8.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-neomagic 1:1.2.2-2 -> 1:1.2.1-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-r128 6.8.0+git20090201.08d56c88-2 -> 6.8.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.2-1 -> 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-s3 1:0.6.1-2 -> 1:0.6.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion 1:1.7.0-2 -> 1:1.6.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-sisusb 1:0.9.1-1 -> 1:0.9.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-tseng 1:1.2.1-1 -> 1:1.2.0-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.5-3 -> 1:10.16.2-1
[DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-voodoo 1:1.2.1-1 -> 1:1.2.0-1
[HOLD] aptitude
[HOLD] gnome-desktop-environment
[HOLD] libapt-pkg-perl


Any suggestions how to diagnose this problem further?
I'll try to upgrade again to current unstable version and try packages
I've built earlier (6.9.0, 6.11.0) - this time remembering always to
reboot after installation.


-- 
Jacek Politowski