Re: Garbled screen on IBM R50
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:10 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 19:59 +0200, Jesper Mørk wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > I've encountered something that I find extremely strange, sometimes when
> > I boot my IBM R50 everything on the screen is all garbled, even the
> > centrino and ibm logo in the start sequence. The machine is still able
> > to boot and when i restart it a couple of times it goes back to being
> > fine. The best recover results is when I, without being able to see what
> > I type, is able to login to the machine and give it the halt command.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before and can I do anything about it?
>
> I don't see this on mine (R50p), unless I try and go through a suspend
> -> resume cycle using the ATI drivers.
Well that is a known problem, but this is even the centrino logo and stuff in the beginning.
> At the moment I'm using X.Org 6.7 and all is right in the world. Well,
> all but the fact that I just get a black screen when I try and switch to
> a text console, but I can cope with that.
Well even though i'm not sure, I suspect this has nothing to do with X
since its all of the text messages during booting and as I said even the
boot logos from IBM. I'm beginning to fear its a hardware failure. But
then its funny that it apparantly is a temporary failure.
> The R50p might be a different video chipset though.
Its an M9 from ATI.
greets
Jesper
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