emacs window a solid black block after a distribution upgrade

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

Apologies for the late reply. I am nursing a dreadful cold.

On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 20:20, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> What desktop? Using X11 or Wayland? Whichever it is, try the other,
> and report back.
>
It was using wayland. If I change to use x11, the system works.


> If possible, try a non-3D composited desktop, such as Xfce.
>
I'm not knowledgeable about these things. If you need me to try further
things, can you point me to a web page that gives info on how to do that?

>
> Graphical Gtk Emacs or text Emacs? If the latter what are other
> terminal windows like?
>
Graphical.

Does Firefox launch? What if you run it it from the command line --
> any errors shown?
>
It launches. Pauses for a while. Then it quits.


> > Dell Inspiron 530s
> > 4GiB RAM
>
> Is it one of these?
> \
> https://icecat.biz/en/p/dell/d065s11/pcs-workstations-inspiron+530s+dt+desktop-1620567.html
>
> If so it should have an AMD Radeon HD 2400 XT GPU, with a
> RV610/RV630 chipset.
>
> The built-in Radeon driver should be able to control this:
> https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man4/radeon.4.html

It looks familiar so, yes. it is quite possibly one of them. *However*,
hardinfo states that Intel Integrated Graphics  Are in use:
Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller

What does the Ubuntu drivers tool say? If it offers anything, install
> it, reboot and try again.
>
ubiuntu-drivers list  # displays no output
ubiuntu-drivers list-orm  # displays no output


> If you need a browser, try the natively-packaged Firefox:
>
> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
>
> Or Chromium which is in the repos.
>
Chromium gives 27 lines of output on standard error (stderr). Would you
like me to email them here?

Let me know if you need anything else...

BW,


Ian

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