On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:09:45AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 26.07.2012, 00:50 +0200 schrieb Thomas Hahn:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:14:06PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>
> [???]
>
> > > Am Dienstag, den 24.07.2012, 11:31 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>
> [???]
>
> > > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2012, 02:51 +0000 schrieb Pedro Ângelo:
> > > >
> > > > > I have a similar problem on a laptop with hybrid ati/intel dual
> > > > > graphics.
> > > >
> > > > What laptop do you have? Maybe also attach or paste the output of
> > > > `lspci`.
> > > >
> > > > > I've managed to get it working by blacklisting the i915 module and
> > > > > got
> > > > > to where you were at with a blank screen but an ok xorg.log
> > > >
> > > > Could you attach `/var/log/Xorg.0.log` please?
> > > >
> > > > > I tried fiddling with the brightness controls on the laptop and it
> > > > > worked, so you might try that.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, so the brightness was just turned down. Nice one! Great you found
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > > > I hope this SNA support eventually lands on testing to see if I can
> > > > > use
> > > > > the laptop without all these fiddly configs.
> > > >
> > > > `xserver-xorg-video-intel` 2:2.19.0-4 in Debian Wheezy/testing is
> > > > compiled with SNA support. You have to enable it though. For example
> > > > create `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-local.conf` with the following content.
> > > >
> > > > Section "Device";
> > > > Identifier "Device0";
> > > > Driver "intel";
> > > > Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
> > > > EndSection
> > >
> > > I think you need to remove all ; at the end of the lines.
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > > Identifier "Device0"
> > > Driver "intel"
> > > Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
> > > EndSection
>
> [???]
>
> > > > PS: I still do not know what the error is. Could someone give a short
> > > > explanation, please?
> >
> > I have tried to get my laptop working on the weekend after some heavy
> > updates.
>
> Do you mean you upgraded to the latest versions in Wheezy/testing or
> Sid/unstable?
>
> Could you run `reportbug xserver-xorg-video-intel` and paste the system
> (and package) information section from the end of the created message
> please?
>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-34
ii libdrm-intel1 2.4.33-3
ii libdrm2 2.4.33-3
ii libpciaccess0 0.13.1-2
ii libudev0 175-3.1
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxcb-dri2-0 1.8.1-1
ii libxcb-util0 0.3.8-2
ii libxcb1 1.8.1-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-4
ii libxv1 2:1.0.7-1
ii libxvmc1 2:1.0.7-1
ii xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-12] 2:1.12.1.902-1
After some inactivity screen turns black again.
So close lid and open back again ...
> > Turned the beast around to google about it with the correct name specs.
> > So I needed to close the lid. When I opened it back, X was there.
> > I am getting the same behaviour with the intel or the fglrx driver.
> > Display is pitch black. Close the thing, open it again and voila, we have
> > got kdm waiting for login.
>
> Have you tried Pedro???s suggestion to increase the backlight with the
> function keys when the display is black?
>
I have tried again and it's not working at all.
Even if screen is shining brightly.
> > So this one is usable under linux/X after all.
>
> I would not call that usable. ;-)
>
> > Sorry for not replaying earlier ...
>
> No problem at all.
>
> I know the weather is too good currently. But if you could spend another
> half an hour to follow the steps in [1] and report a bug in the
> freedesktop.org Bugzilla, that would be awesome. Hopefully that will
> bring up a correct fix for this issue and not so knowledgeable users
> trying Debian will not hit this issue.
>
I am not really sure against what I should file a bug.
Now fglrx is locked out, just the i915 driver (saving some battery life ...)
and I am having this issued with this HP laptop.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html
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