On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Ville Valkonen <weezeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 October 2012 05:53, patrick keshishian <pkesh...@gmail.com> 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.
Hi Ville, I do believe after a few Xwindows restarts the machine seems to hang, but I'll retest to verify this and check the Xorg.log more closely. cheers, --patrick
