Adam Bower adam.bower@framestore-cfc.com wrote:
It is possible that either the new Debian X packages are broken, or perhaps don't have the matrox drivers included etc. etc. I would try looking online a configuration guide maybe. Failing that/also you should perhaps look on the Debian mailing lists and possibly look to see if anyone else has reported this as a bug etc.
There are no signs of anyone else reporting problems so I shall have to assume that there's nothing wrong with the packages.
One other thing to check is to see if the upgrade replaced your X config file it lives in /etc/X11/ and is called XF86Config-4
I have since tried my old, very little different, XF86Config-4 but with no change. I have also reconfigured the xserver package with also no difference.
I'm stumped. I was stumped when I started so that hasn't changed either :)
It does appear that the magic sysrq key combinations work when the system appears normal but trying to change to another console, <ctrl><alt><Fn> locks the system up solid and the sysrq combinations then no longer work.
Can anyone offer any pointers as to what to try next please?
Barry Samuels