Re: [Tails-testers] 2.0~rc1 graphics issue

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Autor: intrigeri
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A: philalethes
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-testers] 2.0~rc1 graphics issue
Hi,

philalethes@??? wrote (14 Jan 2016 18:09:05 GMT) :
> I have been using 1.8.1 & 1.8.2 without problem.
> Today I booted off of DVD with 2.0~rc1.


Thanks for testing and reporting back!

> First attempt:
> got to the login screen,
> got to the blue desktop.
> No icons appeared.
> After that I had to do cold reset of computer.


> Second attempt (reboot from DVD):
> got to the login screen,
> got to the blue desktop.
> No icons appeared.
> My screen blinked, went to black and stayed there, but that might be due to me
> banging on a few keys, and possibly a reset key on the Dell keyboard.


> Here is Belarc list of my components. My graphics chip is ATI.


OK, that's an ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics.

This looks like this might be the bug that was fixed in some Jessie
point-release last year, that we didn't pick up since we're shipping
a patched mesa:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/lib/mesa.git/commit/?h=debian-jessie&id=6d8a4971d16ddaa5429dc9e3a26b603e08738d8a
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775264
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85647

I'm going to rebase our mesa package on top of current Debian stable's
one, and will try to make it go into Tails 2.0. Hopefully it'll fix
this problem.

Meanwhile, please take debugging action and report a bug, since it
may very well be another problem entirely:

https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/tails_does_not_start/

Cheers,
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intrigeri