On 18 October 2012 05:53, patrick keshishian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 > snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, > the screen went, what I can best describe as "fuzzy". So I did the > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the > xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root > window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the > display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what > to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more > Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad > and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only > solution. > > After rebooting back to a much, much older snapshot (circa May 2012) > the behavior is present there as well. I start X, Zap and it goes > through the cycle outlined above. > > Not sure if anyone interested in this issue or not. Truth be told, I > wouldn't have noticed if the display didn't got "fuzzy" in the middle > of usage. I have not had that experience before, hence the reason I > never knew the issue existed with the May snapshot. > > dmesg, Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf pasted below. > > Best, > --patrick
Hi Patrick, This message might be completely irrelevant so ignore the message in that case. I had a bit similar behaviour with Intel GM45. If I recall right, Xorg log said "GPU hung" before it finally got blank and hung the whole machine. This happens/happened rarely and is therefore hard to reproduce. Secondly, this haven't happened lately so it might got fixed already. -- Ville
