On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:20 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > >
> > > There seems to be a race condition somewhere which sometimes causes this
> > > when setting a video mode. I can usually get back the correct display by
> > > forci
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:00 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > There seems to be a race condition somewhere which sometimes causes this
> > when setting a video mode. I can usually get back the correct display by
> > forcing a mode set, e.g. by switching between console and X.
>
> The p
> FWIW, I haven't heard of this blooming damaging hardware. Still it's
> probably a good idea not to leave it indefinitely. :)
>
> There seems to be a race condition somewhere which sometimes causes this
> when setting a video mode. I can usually get back the correct display by
> forcing a mode s
Thanks for explaining my missunderstanding =)
On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:36, you wrote:
> > To me, it is bright an flickering.
> > Never happens is X starts normal, an do occur if switched to console(fb)
>
> That's just the PLL data being misdetected, resulting in a flaky PLL
> setup. No power
> To me, it is bright an flickering.
> Never happens is X starts normal, an do occur if switched to console(fb)
That's just the PLL data being misdetected, resulting in a flaky PLL
setup. No powering down the panel output drivers here.
To me, the LCD 'blooming' always was an indication of a crash
Hello again (again),
Just thought I'd let you know that UseFBDev = 0 did the trick, I think.
Several sleeps, wakeups and boots later and I have not had the
"blooming" problem.
Many thanks for your help!
Joe
Joseph Sanger wrote:
Hello again,
Well it happened again last night on a wakeup bu
Hello again,
Well it happened again last night on a wakeup but I couldn't change
terminals - the system hadn't properly woken up. Maybe it had turned the
LCD backlight on before everything else and then froze, I don't know. I
will try Option "UseFBDev" "0" later, if I remember correctly it is
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:42, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:44 +0100, Børge Holen wrote:
> > I've seen this issue quite often..
> >
> > To me, it is bright an flickering.
>
> Oh I think the flickering (where everything is distorted left/right) is
> a different issue.
Flicker
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:44 +0100, Børge Holen wrote:
> I've seen this issue quite often..
> To me, it is bright an flickering.
Oh I think the flickering (where everything is distorted left/right) is
a different issue.
johannes
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I've seen this issue quite often..
My PB5,7 do have the same symptoms... The whole thing corrects itself by
changing back and forth from console(running radeonfb) and X, this is often
corrected by making the switch once, however... twice and more is know to be
needed at times of need ;)
If it
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:49 +0900, Joseph Sanger wrote:
>
> FYI. it was this forum that got me worried, its about half way down the
> page:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473838.html
>
> What do you think?
You mean the allegation that the radeon driver killed the GPU of a
'TiBook DVI
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:49 +0900, Joseph Sanger wrote:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473838.html
>
> What do you think?
I don't think that makes sense. The higher the applied voltage is, the
more twisted the crystals become and the pixel is black. So how can a
white display have any ad
Hi there,
Thanks Johannes and Michel for your replies. I haven't tried switching
VTs yet, I'll try when the problem recurrs.
FYI. it was this forum that got me worried, its about half way down the
page:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473838.html
What do you think?
BTW I forgot to m
Hi,
> The powerbook sleeps fine I think, but probably about 50% of the time,
> on wake-up, the display freezes with a black screen and then slowly
> begins to "bleach" white and purple from the top. Obviously I shut down
> immediately as this looks dangerous.
I've been told that this is comple
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:20 +0900, Joseph Sanger wrote:
>
> Forgive me if this has been covered before, there were some messages in
> the archive which I couldn't seem to open.
>
> I am new to Linux and have installed Debian Testing on a dual boot with
> OSX. I have a powerbook5,8 (one of the l
Hi there,
Forgive me if this has been covered before, there were some messages in
the archive which I couldn't seem to open.
I am new to Linux and have installed Debian Testing on a dual boot with
OSX. I have a powerbook5,8 (one of the last ones, with the high-res screen).
The powerbook sle
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