Your message dated Thu, 29 May 2014 21:27:52 +0200 with message-id <201405292127.54102.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line closing, most likely a hardware problem has caused the Debian Bug report #748666, regarding base: Screen garbled on booting in the linux kernel to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: base Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? After installation, on Dell Inspiron 1501, after grub booting on the linux kernel the screen goes garbled and resume working after 10 minutes * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? The only workaround was to put the following three lines in /etc/rc.local: vbetool dpms off sleep 1 vbetool dpms on * What was the outcome of this action? After a few seconds, instead of waiting 10 minutes, the screen appeared normal * What outcome did you expect instead? I will expect to get a normal screen just after grub booting -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, I'm closing this bug on the assumption that this is hardware problem, which could+should be worked around in the linux kernel (like hundreds of similar issues), so that you don't have to execute those commands manually. But: this is likely already fixed in newer kernels. (So I'm closing the bug.) What you could do is to try out a jessie installation and see if the problem is still there. If so, please file a new bug or reply to this+me, it's easy to reopen this bug. cheers, Holger from #debian-qa [21:17] < h01ger> | any idea what to do with #748666 ? [21:17] - zwiebelbot- | (#debian-qa) [Debian#748666: base: Screen garbled on booting in the linux kernel] [21:18] < h01ger> | closing and sending to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ feels mostly right, but then it also smells like a real bug (in the hw TBH) which could be wurk arounded in linux like zillion other bugs in hw [21:20] < mones> yep, sounds like a hw bug [21:23] < h01ger> | so closing and suggesting to try current jessie and file a new bug if the problem is still there. thanks. [21:25] < h01ger> | mones: i'll include your response in my mail to - done, ok? [21:25] < mones> | h01ger: sure, no problem
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