Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie
Date	2016-10-03 07:00 +0200
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brian composed on 2016-10-02 14:23 (UTC-0400):

> On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 19:29:12 +0200, err404@free.fr wrote:

>>what is your hadware?
>>graphic card?
>>and did you have any drivers or firmware for this? like firmware free or non-free, or drivers for nvidia, or amd etc.

> It's an eMachines desktop which was originally supplied with Windows
> 7. I wiped Windows and loaded on Wheezy from a live DVD. The CPU is an
> Athlon II x2 220 @ 800 MHz. The graphics (on the motherboard) is a
> GeForce 6150 SE nForce 430 rev a2.

This has been a problematic gfxchip for more than one user over the years. 
Try adding this to the kernel cmdline:

	nouveau.config=NvMSI=0

I have a machine with the same gfxchip on its motherboard,
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/K9N6PGM2V.html
but currently it doesn't have any Debian installed on it to check which if 
any releases are helped by it. It does have openSUSE 13.1 (kernel 3.12, 
server 1.14.3), 13.2 (kernel 3.16, server 1.16.1), 42.1 (kernel 4.1, server 
1.17.2) and Tumbleweed (kernel 4.7.4, server 1.18.4) installed. All four 
suffer random brief video corruption running X. Tumbleweed seems to have 
almost eliminated the corruption that is excessive and unacceptable in the 
others. IIRC, last Debian tried on it was Wheezy with Gnome or Mate or 
Cinnamon, and too much trouble or impossible at that time to actually use X.

Something else to try is ensuring xserver-xorg-video-modesetting is 
installed, then purging xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and all traces of NVidia's 
proprietary driver bits. The modesetting driver has been getting quite some 
attention from the devs:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Debian-Abandon-Intel-DDX

The original owner of this motherboard suffered to the extent he installed a 
PCI gfxcard as a workaround when the motherboard was rather young. I got the 
motherboard free when when he bought a new one that I installed after its 
original RAM went bad.

> Looking at the output from a
> dpkg -l there's no mention of any of the packages you list above. When
> I installed Wheezy for my wife, I basically just accepted defaults, so
> anything which has been loaded was loaded by the installer.

> I can send you the full output from dpkg -l if you wish, just ask.
-- 
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Thread

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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