Well, I just looked at the fan :) But I had a PC not a laptop. Tho you can still pop it open I hope. Another way is to watch the temp changes in BIOS or use whatever the control soft comes with the card. I have nvidia and they supply some "nvidia-settings" soft that displays the temp. On Nov 20, 2012 10:41 AM, "William Shu" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter, Andrew, > Thanks for the suggestions. > > Peter, the machine is an HP ProBook 4720s Laptop that I use as a sort of > "mobile desktop", and I do not have access to its internals. Besides being > the only machine I can work on now, I cannot tinker with its hardware! I've > been using for about a year now with no problem. Could it be that something > has worn out power supply from the PCI bus? (I often charge my phone via > the usb slot.). If so, can one add (or redirect) power externally? > > Andrew, I tried another monitor--a CRT--at the time but it did not display > anything. Since I could not repeat the event, I could only surmise the > screen and/or the keyboard (to switch on multi-display) or the USB Hard > drive might have been compromised. (a fsck proved the USB HD drive clean!) > > How does one test the fan of the GPU? Sorry for dumb question. I noticed > lately that the fan of the machine goes on for much longer than in times > past. Looking back, could briefly using the machine in dusty work > environment sometime back have such an adverse effect? (Machine is supposed > to be a laptop!) > > Another issue I don't understand is why the same paraview program, run via > chroot under the livedvd (6.0), found the same display okay, but does not > find it okay when the system is booted directly! > > Regards, > William. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:46 PM > *Subject:* WG: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work > > Hi William, > > some high-end graphics cards (our Nvidia Quadro cards) need additional > power, so a special power cable must be connected to the graphics card. > With normal low resolution the graphics cards work fine without this > cable, but with higher resolution the power from PCI bus ist no longer > sufficient and we got a blank screen. > > Peter > > Dr. Peter Stauffert > Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG > > *Von:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Andrew Z > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 20. November 2012 14:36 > *An:* William Shu > *Cc:* SCIENTIFIC- LINUX- USERS@ FNAL. GOV > *Betreff:* Re: Black Display Screen Problem & Getting Paraview to work > > William > Check if fan on your gpu actually works. > Try another monitor. > I had similar odd behavior a while ago. > On Nov 20, 2012 4:45 AM, "William Shu" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I state the basic problem, then give further explanations below. Any help > appreciated, especially as I'm just groping! > > My basic problems are: > ----------------------- > (1) to ascertain the cause of the black screen (blank, not blank) I > sometimes obtain, and I'm forced to switch off power and reboot and how to > solve it. > (2) to get paraview to display on screen, without aborting with the > message: > < ...> > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 404 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual > <...> > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 631 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting. > > > What I have done so far: > ------------------------ > Googling and fumbling along, I managed to install kmod-fglrx and > fglrx-x11-drv which I seem to need, given an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics > card. > > Before doing this, my screen went black (i.e., black, with no light, not > blank) a couple of times, and resumed on its own, sometimes after touching > the keyboard and mouse. Until now, I put it down to perhaps screen saver > activities.) > > Then disaster struck: the screen went black again, indefinitely, and I had > to force a shutdown (keeping the power button down for a while). Repeated > attempts at booting did not help, and could not do fsck with a rescue disk > because the external USB hard drive was encrypted. I finally ran a livecd > (6.0) where I used cryptsetup to open drive, and > > chroot $NEWROOT bash -i -l > > to mount the partition. I also had to create > /dev/{random,urandom,null,zero} in the new root, programs like yum could > run. After this, I succeffully rebooted the machine! > > Surprisingly, paraview could open, though it gave a message along the > lines of "all authentication could not be done" (sorry, I did not > successfully copy the message). > > Unfortunately, paraview cannot work with error messages as given below. > > I will be grateful for any assistance, and possible solutions. > > > > > > Details: > ---------- > [wss@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa 'fglrx*' > fglrx-x11-drv-12.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686 > [wss@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa 'kmod-fglrx*' > kmod-fglrx-12.4-1.el6.elrepo.i686 > [wss@localhost ~]$ uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 > 11:21:36 CST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [wss@localhost ~]$ > [wss@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -nn | grep -i VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device > [1002:68e4] > [wss@localhost ~]$ grep -i 1002 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i > 68e4/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias > pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon > /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias > pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx > /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias > pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon > /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias > pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx > /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias > pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* radeon > /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686/modules.alias:alias > pci:v00001002d000068E4sv*sd*bc*sc*i* fglrx > [wss@localhost ~]$ > > paraview error message: > -------------------------------- > [wss@localhost ~]$ paraview > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x14d > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800229 > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 404 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual > > > > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x480022b > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 404 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Could not find a decent visual > > > > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800274 > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 19 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800274 > X Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 > Extension: 135 (Uknown extension) > Minor opcode: 14 (Unknown request) > Resource id: 0x4800274 > ERROR: In > /builddir/build/BUILD/ParaView-3.8.1/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, > line 631 > vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xa7adc90): Cannot create GLX context. Aborting. > > > Aborted > [wss@localhost ~]$ > > >
