Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster

From	Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster
Date	2019-07-14 18:00 +0200
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On 7/14/19 11:47 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Cindy Sue Causey composed on 2019-07-14 06:47 (UTC-0400):
>
>> Psychedelic sounds fun as a user CHOICE. I was hoping for a
>> printscreen. That's odd that it printed normal. I'm trying to wrap my
>> head around the computer's logic of how that would happen.
> Sounds like a coincidence of hardware failure at the time of the upgrade. Is that
> APU/GPU sharing system RAM? If so, a reseat of RAM modules might be a solution,
> and overnight memtest86 (not memtest86+) might be in order. Maybe it's time to
> find some other display to try. And the newer kernel might want some specific
> cmdline option to keep AMD happy, maybe iommu.
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt

Easy to test: boot the system using a USB live distribution of some 
kind. If
the video works, the problem is configuration. If the video fails 
identically,
problem is quite probably hardware.

-- 
Carl Fink                           nitpicking@nitpicking.com

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Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-13 00:00 +0200
  Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-07-13 01:40 +0200
    Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-13 02:30 +0200
      Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-07-13 05:10 +0200
        Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-13 09:30 +0200
        Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-13 09:50 +0200
          Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-07-13 10:10 +0200
            Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-13 10:20 +0200
              Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-07-13 10:50 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-14 02:40 +0200
              Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-07-13 11:10 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-14 00:10 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-14 01:30 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 08:50 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-14 09:10 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-14 10:10 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 19:10 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-17 01:00 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-07-17 12:20 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 08:50 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-14 09:20 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-14 12:50 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-14 17:50 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2019-07-14 18:00 +0200
              Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-13 12:50 +0200
                Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster hobie@rumormillnews.com - 2019-07-14 00:20 +0200

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