Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
Date	2016-10-06 20:50 +0200
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On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote:

> 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?

I would say so. Whether it makes any difference or not is a different
matter. I've never used non-free video drivers. If you have an xorg.conf
in /etc/X11 I'd move it out of the way.

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

That is when you used a terminal. Boot into X with

  xinit -- vt$XDG_VTNR

It is not pretty but there is an xterm to type commands into. What is
the output?

-- 
Brian.

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Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com> - 2016-10-02 18:30 +0200
  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
    Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-11-06 00:00 +0100
  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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