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
