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Post by pharrisire on Jul 13, 2010 11:14:08 GMT -5
This only happened once, but i guess it doesn't hurt to mention it.
When shutting down, the screen locked in a top to bottom - side to
side jumble of colored bands. No recognizable letters or shapes,
jumbled colored bands. I just shut it off and it has not
done it again. Odd at the time, but no problem.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jul 16, 2010 3:56:08 GMT -5
This only happened once, but i guess it doesn't hurt to mention it. When shutting down, the screen locked in a top to bottom - side to side jumble of colored bands. No recognizable letters or shapes, jumbled colored bands. I just shut it off and it has not done it again. Odd at the time, but no problem. Sounds to me like the video card at least shut down ... that's a video card's "undefined state" which can often be seen when the reset is sent to it when systems are booting. It's not anything to worry about, just the card going as Bill Gates calls it, "random" when it's told "byebye," |
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Post by pharrisire on Jul 16, 2010 10:32:20 GMT -5
OK - no worries.
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Post by pharrisire on Nov 25, 2010 9:20:21 GMT -5
Just had that multi-color screen on shutdown like that one
time before.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Nov 27, 2010 4:51:50 GMT -5
Just had that multi-color screen on shutdown like that one time before. Sounds like whatever's hosed in the ACPI on that particular machine hasn't been addressed yet then. Sorry about that! When you send the diagnostics data with the latest data, I'll forward the complaint to BSD's Xorg team, though I suspect that like your "not turn off" this also is an ACPI problem ... if it's any comfort, we seem to have a common denominator which we didn't have before. Oddball machine in terms of what the BSD folks are aware of ... sorry it wasn't fixed in all the improvements since the last kernel build. |
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Post by pharrisire on Nov 27, 2010 11:06:28 GMT -5
Once more - this time it was all dark red lines.
But no problem after the hard-off routine.
(Its almost pretty)
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Nov 27, 2010 16:47:55 GMT -5
Once more - this time it was all dark red lines. But no problem after the hard-off routine. (Its almost pretty) Is this the lappie? Or the desktop machine? This too is ACPI stuff which as you can see has been the bane of our existence lately. Heh. Each of our KNOS betas is using new kernel code each time and while ACPI is coming together, there are still a few loose ends I guess. Let's see what we can do ... |
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Post by pharrisire on Nov 29, 2010 11:59:57 GMT -5
Yes, both the 'colors at shutdown' and 'doesn't fully shut off'
are the laptop. So far neither of these had affected the
desktop.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Nov 29, 2010 22:41:28 GMT -5
Yes, both the 'colors at shutdown' and 'doesn't fully shut off' are the laptop. So far neither of these had affected the desktop. Sounds to me as though the video card is listening to the shutdown command and actually honoring the ACPI "lights out" instruction, but the CPU isn't halting. Any chance of flipping that toy over and telling me the exact model number? I'll see if I can flag down one of the ACPI guys. One of the reasons why we're in Beta3 for the 8.1 BSD code instead of a release candidate as we did in 7 and 8.0 is because they're still bending spaghetti in their ACPI code. That's the last piece of the kernel puzzle which remains unfinished because there's just so MANY variations out there along with some seriously buggy BIOS' ... |
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Post by pharrisire on Nov 30, 2010 13:45:42 GMT -5
Certainly!
There is precious little that is not in foreign-to-me language,
but:
lenovo
Model Name: 8922
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