On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Christian Convey wrote:
And for the framebuffer-restoration issue, do you think it's telling that I get this problem with the "nv" driver but not with the "vesa" driver? I.e., does that point to a possible problem in the nv driver's code that we should look at?
I missed that part. If the "vesa" driver doesn't have the problem
but the "nv" driver does that would point to a problem with the "nv"
driver. Does it look like the text mode looks correct at some
point during the server shutdown, but then gets messed up? If not,
then I'll just have to wait until I get my hands on one of these
so I can poke around.
I'm afraid the problem appears to exist during the entire shutdown sequence.
Another piece of information which probably points to the same root cause:
If I boot the system without going into X right away, the problem is absent. If I then start X with the "nv" driver, the problem is present.
Anyway, thanks for all your help. I appreciate it.
Also, is there any remedy whatsoever for the bad text rendition shown during the boot loader? For instance, a BIOS update?
A BIOS update would probably fix that. It might fix everything, actually. BIOSes on these systems are usually combination System/Video BIOSes and are the responsibility of the vendor (Toshiba in this case).
I don't suppose you know your bios version do you? I'm not sure how to find it out on laptops these days.
This particular laptop has a nice, desktop-like boot sequence, so it's pretty easy...
During POST, it says "PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0". Insite the BIOS setup utility, however, it says "BIOS version 1.10".
Usually the bios has a big long number with lots of decimal places in it. Like 4.17.00.61.31.
Hmm, dunno where to find it either :(
Mark.
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