[DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-12-13 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, After the modesetting issue stopped manifesting itself for some days, it started again, and now, it is almost happening with every system boot. As the sceen is completely unreadable with unaligned pixels, I tried the modprobe command without a display and paying attention not to make

Re: [DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-11-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi! Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: Dear All, Lately, on an HP Probook 4540s, while booting Devuan Boewulf the screen becomes completely unreabled with unsynchronized lines of pixels. I will not be surprised if this is some sick joke by HP, to force their customers to buy new, but I do not know

[DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-10-24 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, The issue seems to have been caused by the laptop's battery electronics. I removed the battery and reconfigured the kernel package to rebuild initrd.img. Rebooting did not reproduce the issue. However, I need several days to confirm the issue has truly been resolved. Thanks.

Re: [DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-10-23 Thread terryc
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:42:53 +0200 Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Dear All, > > Lately, on an HP Probook 4540s, while booting Devuan Boewulf the > screen becomes completely unreabled with unsynchronized lines of > pixels. Which kernel? Was it recently upgraded? Which video drivers are your

Re: [DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-10-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:42:53 +0200 Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Dear All, > > Lately, on an HP Probook 4540s, while booting Devuan Boewulf the > screen becomes completely unreabled with unsynchronized lines of > pixels. I will not be surprised if this is some sick joke by HP, to > force

[DNG] Linux kernel boot causing screen to become unreadable.

2020-10-23 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Lately, on an HP Probook 4540s, while booting Devuan Boewulf the screen becomes completely unreabled with unsynchronized lines of pixels. I will not be surprised if this is some sick joke by HP, to force their customers to buy new, but I do not know if this is the case with what I am