Subject: Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

[Aere Greenway]

On 11/06/2014 07:56 AM, farinet at arcor.de wrote:
> Just a side note. Looking at how Aere posted the relevant sysinfos came up to my mind it might be a good idea to add the cli utility inxi to Lubuntu.
>
> It's really easy and effective to gather the systeminfos, better - and more complete - than all the standard tools, with and without gui, i'm aware of.
Under the "System" menu, there is the "System Profiler and Benchmark" 
tool, which works fine, and you can Copy/Paste from its display.

Unfortunately, there is no "Edit" menu to reassure you you are copying 
what you want.

For example, with "Display" selected in the left pane, I selected (in 
the right pane), the "Resolution" line.  Right-clicking on it yields no 
menu, but when I hit control-c, then paste (in the e-mail below), I get 
the following (namely, everything in the right pane - not just what was 
selected:

-Display-
Resolution        : 1920x1080 pixels
Vendor        : The X.Org Foundation
Version        : 1.15.1
-Monitors-
Monitor 0        : 1920x1080 pixels
-Extensions-
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
DRI3
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
Present
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
-OpenGL-
Vendor        : Unknown
Renderer        : Unknown
Version        : Unknown
Direct Rendering        : No

This was done on my primary machine - not the machine having the problem.

If my Lubuntu partition could have been booted (even with a prior 
kernel), I would have used this tool.

UbuntuStudio (with the XFCE) has no system info tool, so I installed 
something (sysinfo), which unfortunately, I couldn't copy/paste from, 
and in doing it, installed a bunch of mono libraries, taking a long time 
to install (I don't like sysinfo).

I know most of you really like command-line-interface tools.

The problem I encounter with such tools, is I can't remember the command 
name, and I don't want to search through volumes of past e-mails to 
discover it.

If there's a GUI tool in the menu (and its name describes what it does), 
I will use that, and if it's use is not obvious, its help information 
usually gives me what I need.

With such a tool, I don't have to remember a lot of information for 
something I rarely use, thus keeping my memory available for the huge 
amount of programming details needed for my projects.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere