The nouveau drivers caused 100% cpu usage and strange artifacts to be drawn
to the screen, so I installed with nomodeset boot option to load the vesa driver.
With this, when xserver is started I get horizontal cascading lines until Slim
display manager loads. Once logged on the system performs exceptionally
well and is completely stable. The problem is that when I shutdown I
get the horizontal cascading lines back, Xserver seems to crash and
I’m unable to do a clean shutdown.
Searching the web it seems that this is a Debian specific fault with this
graphics card that goes back years and has never been addressed.
I’ve tried a multitude of things like different boot options, changing Slim
For Lightdm etc, and I’m now out of ideas.
I really think I’m never going to get this working on this laptop which
is such a shame as this is such a great lightweight distro.
So out of desperation I’m going to throw it open to the community here.
Are you able to help?
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System: Host: time-laptop Kernel: 4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.3)
Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
Distro: antiX-16.1_386-full Berta Cáceres 16 January 2017
Machine: Device: laptop System: Times product: N/A v: 5a
Mobo: Times model: N/A v: 5a BIOS: Insyde v: V1.07 date: 10/06/2003
CPU: Single core mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+ (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
flags: (pae sse) bmips: 2786 speed/max: 1393/1990 MHz
Graphics: Card: S3 Graphics VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: vesa
Resolution: 1024x768@61.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 3.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller
driver: snd_via82xx port: e100 bus-ID: 00:11.5
Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp
Network: Card: VIA VT6102 [Rhine-II]
driver: via-rhine port: e300 bus-ID: 00:12.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (3.3% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HM160HC size: 160.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.8G used: 3.5G (47%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /home size: 6.5G used: 738M (12%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
ID-3: swap-1 size: 0.90GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 135 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 84.0/971.5MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.21