So you believe it's all kernel's fault? Can you verify it works with Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 64 along with Kubuntu or should I pop out some CD's? Thanks Richard!!
On Feb 13, 2008 1:38 AM, Richard Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some more info. I went to system/administration/services, and > disabled gdm, thinking I'd reboot to a console, just to see if this was a > kernel problem, or possibly an xorg problem, since it's happening just > milliseconds before the screen blanks to switch to X. > Well, that wasn't clean at all! it kills gdm immediately, which blew > away my X session, as well as all the apps running, leaving me at a very > ugly console with a huge font, reminiscent of my old commodore VIC-20. > I managed to reboot, and it did come up without X, but with the same ugly > huge font, so I only saw about 10 lines of text, and my prompt was somewhere > below the bottom of the screen, so I was typing blind. > ...but the important part is that the screen dimmed, so this is > definitely NOT an X issue, it's in the kernel. I also focussed my eyes at > the top of the screen during the boot, and I was able to see that the [PCI} > allocation... error that was displayed there came up DIM, just before the > screen blanks, so the actual sequence is something like this: > 'Kernel is alive' > 'kernel mapping tables...' > (backlight goes to dim) > '[PCI] allocation'... > > <rant> > Once I logged in at the console, I ran startx, and was able to get my > desktop. I again went to system/administration/services and re-enabled gdm, > which AGAIN took immediate action, which in this case tried to start a > second X server, which failed once, but eventually succeeded (as :1), > leaving me at the gdm prompt. I have no idea which virtual console I was > on, but ctrl-alt-f7 got me back to the X session. I probably should file a > bug elswhere for this usability issue... Or just go back to school. In > this new age of upstart, how do I cleanly do a one-time reboot to a normal > console? On my old redhat or suse systems, I always had runlevel 3, but I > discovered a while back that in ubuntu runlevel 3 is the same as runlevel 5, > and now with upstart, I have no idea if 'runlevels' even exist anymore, and > if they do, how to configure and specify them? > System/administration/services certainly has no visible 'runlevel-like' > distinctions, /etc/inittab is gone grrr... > There is no 'upstart' directory under /etc. There is no upstart manpage. > Where do I look for clues? `man init` is still there. scroll to the > bottom, its author is Scott James Remnant. So he calls the project upstart, > but the binary is still init, just to confuse us, right? > OK, the manpage mentions /etc/event.d. Go browse... rc-default seems to > fall thru to runlevel 2. Looking at the /etc/rcn.d directories, I find that > runlevel 1 would not start X, but all others 2 - 5 do. So I can probably > edit one of those other directories to create a multiuser without X > runlevel, but I still don't know how to pass a one-time parm thru grub to > select that level. More studying to do, and I'm tired. I'm going to bed > now... > </rant> > > -- > LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12637 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12637 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
