On 11/3/09, Ernesto Domato <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 18:02, Dick Middleton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ernesto Domato wrote: >>> My next move will be upgrade to Sid and try to see if my theory is >>> right (or at least part of it) by upgrading gnome-power-manager and >>> see if that provokes the behavior again. >> >> Yes, but you could hold devicekit to see if that works, then update >> devicekit. >> > > No, I couldn't because gnome-power-manager from Sid depends on > devicekit-power. Anyway, after upgrading that package to Sid it also > upgraded gnome-session and I can't reproduce the behavior again so I > guess that the problem is more subtle. I don't discard that the > devicekit-power package could be part of the problem because the first > time that I started having the problem with my display was when I was > upgrading my system several days ago and one of the things that get my > attention was that package being installed and reading that it is > going to replace HAL in the future. > > I'll keep doing test by upgrading or installing more packages related > with the display (I already upgraded GDM without consequences) like > installing splashy for splash boot that I used before and it uses > framebuffer (sorry Alan that I responded to that question wrongly > too). > > Thanks, > Ernesto.
Yes, splashy would definitely be a candidate to my eyes :-). I would also suggest ConsoleKit as a remote possibility. ConsoleKit monitors logins and VT switches, which you've mentioned as affecting the blackscreen behaviour. It might be triggering something strange. Alan _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
