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From: Daniel Trebbien on 3 Apr 2010 21:10
I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went "black" a short moment after I saw: "Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm". More specifically, the laptop screen's backlight is on and all I see is a single, white underscore at the top left of the screen (almost as if `gdm` failed to "take over" the display). The hard drive activity LED is flashing even with the "black" screen (all black except for the single underscore character), but the graphical login screen does not appear and typing on the keyboard has no effect on the display.

There was a change in the normal boot sequence. Normally after selecting a kernel from the GRUB menu, all of the text that is printed on screen when the kernel loads and all output from `init` is displayed in the same font and font size. Now after selecting a kernel, two lines appear quickly on screen (something about "ACPI") in the normal font and font size, the screen is cleared, and subsequent output (the word "kinit" and all output from loading the kernel and `init`) is displayed in a smaller font at 50 lines to a screen.

I thought that the problem was related to using a display mode that is not supported by the screen, so, while in maintainer mode, I tried regenerating `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` (`sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg`). I also tried upgrading all packages to become fully up-to-date and re-installing `gdm`.

Has anyone experienced this or a related problem before and found a solution? What should I try doing?


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From: ja123 huang on 4 Apr 2010 07:40
Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg,
syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do
with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been
fixed in 2.6.31. I would like to know the solution to this.


huangja123
From: Freeman on 4 Apr 2010 08:00
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote:
> Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg,
> syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do
> with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been
> fixed in 2.6.31. I would like to know the solution to this.
>

+1

I was sort of panicking about this. I didn't want to find the system unable to
boot but I hadn't collected much info for a post.

Thanks for the inform.

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From: Osamu Aoki on 4 Apr 2010 11:00
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:52:50AM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:16:20PM +0800, ja123 huang wrote:
> > Yep, I have the same problem. It is intermittent. Sieving through dmesg,
> > syslog and kdm.log, the culprit is DRM error. Web search shows it has to do
> > with loading sequence of DRM w.r.t to agpgart. It was supposed to have been
> > fixed in 2.6.31. I would like to know the solution to this.
> >
>
> +1
>
> I was sort of panicking about this. I didn't want to find the system unable to
> boot but I hadn't collected much info for a post.
>
> Thanks for the inform.

I had such problem in sid. Then it disapeared. Since then, I am not
updating system except chroot.

Osamu


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From: Hugo Vanwoerkom on 4 Apr 2010 12:00
Daniel Trebbien wrote:
> I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian
> testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer
> booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon,
> however, when I started my laptop, the screen went "black" a short
> moment after I saw: "Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm". More
> specifically, the laptop screen's backlight is on and all I see is a
> single, white underscore at the top left of the screen (almost as if
> `gdm` failed to "take over" the display). The hard drive activity LED is
> flashing even with the "black" screen (all black except for the single
> underscore character), but the graphical login screen does not appear
> and typing on the keyboard has no effect on the display.
>

What version of gdm is this?

Hugo


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