Aragorn wrote:
On Monday 14 January 2013 05:03, Ant conveyed the following to
comp.os.linux.hardware...
Hi!
I get a black screen (no Earth!) in Google Earth. Also, I see black
form boxes in Debian's login manager after using its Gnome v2.30.2/KDE
v4.4.5 and logging out. Compiz-Fusion (fusion-icon &) seems to work
fine. I tried without it and still have the same symptoms.
I have to restart X to fix the login's black form boxes as a
workaround.
http://pastie.org/5610800 for my Xorg.0.log when starting X,
:running GE, and logging off Gnome. I am using the latest stable
versions and the backports through apt-get commands.
Thank you in advance.
1) Are you running the proprietary video drivers or are you using the
FLOSS drivers - i.e. nouveau, radeon, intel?
2) If you are using the proprietary drivers - i.e. nvidia, fglrx - have
you updated them too?
It's in his pastie.org copy of Xorg.0.log.
"X.Org X Server 1.10.4
NVIDIA GLX Module 295.59 Wed Jun 6 21:40:44 PDT 2012
"
That suggests to me, a package downloaded from Nvidia (tainted).
I'd probably compare an older .log, from when it was working,
and see what extensions are no longer loading.
"Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension" ...
Or alternately, launch an app from the command line, that
shares the symptoms, and snag the stderr output emitted
when it happens. If a portion of the Xserver has a problem,
it should be logged somewhere. And if you can get a regular
app to suffer a "black square", maybe there will be something
on stderr, to hint as to what isn't working.
Paul