Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]

From	Hans Kraus <hans@hanswkraus.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Partial Success [was: Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie]
Date	2016-10-08 14:00 +0200
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Hi,

after following the propositions of Brian:
>
>  dpkg -l | grep fglrx
>
> Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot
> does.
and Jörg-Volker Peetz:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I also saw the other e-mail exchange with Brian where you concluded 
to purge all
 > "fglrx"-related packages. Similarily, there seem to be "nvidia" 
packages on your
 > system. Try
 >
 >  dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
 >
 > Purge them also. Then have a look which xorg-video drivers are left:
 >
 >  dpkg -l | grep xorg-video
 >
 > Leave only xserver-xorg-video-radeon on the system.
 >
 > And have a look if there's still an "glx-alternative" package left, like
 > glx-alternative-mesa. This could also be purged.

I issued:
=======================================================================
root@robbe:/etc/X11# apt-get purge fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-driver 
fglrx-modules-dkms glx-alternative-fglrx libfglrx:amd64 
libfglrx-amdxvba1:amd64 libgl1-fglrx-glx:amd64

root@robbe:/etc/X11# apt-get purge glx-alternative-nvidia 
libegl1-nvidia:amd64 libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 
libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 libgles1-nvidia:amd64 libgles2-nvidia:amd64 
libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 libnvidia-ml1:amd64 libnvidia-ml1:amd64 
libxvmcnvidia1:amd64 nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-bin 
nvidia-glx nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common 
nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-modprobe nvidia-settings nvidia-support 
nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia

root@robbe:/etc/X11# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xserver-xorg-video-radeon is already the newest version.
xserver-xorg-video-radeon set to manually installed.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
   libxnvctrl0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@robbe:/etc/X11#
=======================================================================
Which partially solved my problems. The system is now booting into Gnome
again.

A problem remains: the contents of the screen (I controlled only text
based ones like Thunderbird) are sometimes overwritten. This happens for
lines where the text is partially overwritten with other text (normally
or skewed) and line backgrounds. The contents are restored if I move the
mouse pointer to the distorted parts.

This looks like a driver issue to me. Is there a better mailing list to
cope with these problems as 'debian-user'?

Many thanks to all which helped me,
Kind regards,
Hans

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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