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Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

From Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
Date 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
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Hi,

Am 05.10.2016 um 20:58 schrieb Brian:
> On Wed 05 Oct 2016 at 19:50:50 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote:
>
>> thanks to all. Brian is right with his opinion that I'm not subscribed
>> to the list. I sent a 'subscribe' to
>> <mailto: debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org> but didn't get an answer
>> (or at least I didn't find it).
>
> The reply comes back to the address you subscribed from. Maybe that
> wasn't hans@hanswkraus.com. But we will not dwell on that; you can sort
> it out at another time.
>
>> How do I switch drivers under Debian, especiallay from the "AMD FGLRX driver
>> for Radeon adapters" to the "free radeon driver, which is the default in
>> jessie"?
>
> I did not mean to imply you are using the FGLRX driver. Your "lspci -v"
> output shows
>
>   > Kernel driver in use: radeon
>
> which implies otherwise. But the journalctl output doesn't look happy.
>
> To answer your question:
>
>   dpkg -l | grep fglrx
>
> Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot
> does.

root@robbe:~# dpkg -l | grep fglrx
ii  fglrx-atieventsd 
1:15.9-4~deb8u2                      amd64        events daemon for the 
non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
ii  fglrx-driver 
1:15.9-4~deb8u2                      amd64        non-free ATI/AMD 
RadeonHD display driver
ii  fglrx-modules-dkms 
1:15.9-4~deb8u2                      amd64        dkms module source for 
the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
ii  glx-alternative-fglrx                                       0.5.1 
                             amd64        allows the selection of FGLRX 
as GLX provider
ii  libfglrx:amd64 
1:15.9-4~deb8u2                      amd64        non-free ATI/AMD 
RadeonHD display driver (runtime libraries)
ii  libfglrx-amdxvba1:amd64 
1:15.9-4~deb8u2                      amd64        AMD XvBA (X-Video 
Bitstream Acceleration) backend for VA API
ii  libgl1-fglrx-glx:amd64 
1:15.9-4~deb8u2                      amd64        proprietary libGL for 
the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver

Is it OK to purge all these?

> (What does the glxinfo command give?)
>
root@robbe:~# glxinfo
Error: unable to open display

Thanks,
Hans

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  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-02 19:00 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie err404@free.fr - 2016-10-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-02 20:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-03 07:00 +0200
          Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-10-03 09:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-02 20:40 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-02 21:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-03 19:40 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-03 19:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-03 19:30 +0200
        Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-03 21:10 +0200
          Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2016-10-03 21:50 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-04 20:50 +0200
              Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-04 22:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 12:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-05 20:10 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 21:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-06 20:50 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-07 22:30 +0200
                Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-08 14:00 +0200
                Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-09 23:50 +0200
                Re: Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to  Jessie] Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-17 19:20 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-05 18:20 +0200
              Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
                Re:: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 21:00 +0200
                Re: : Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-10-06 21:40 +0200
            Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-06 20:00 +0200
      Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-03 19:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-02 20:50 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2016-10-02 22:10 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-10-02 23:50 +0200
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  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 02:10 +0200
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2016-10-05 17:20 +0200
  Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-07 03:30 +0200

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