blank screen after shudown or reboot or logout

boblu · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 40

I had installed gentoo twice on my laptop these days, and it kept suffering the same problem that when I shutdown or reboot or logout from gnome, the screen will turn black and system just hangs with power still on. Everytime I had to press the power button to reboot or shutdown my laptop.
One more things, I can not even switch console using ctrl+alt+Fx.
I'm using 2.6.22-r8 gentoo sources kenel.

Is it a kernel bug or a problem with the LCD refresh rate?

Are there some one having the same problem?

Please help me or give me some hint that could be the cause of this problem.

Thank you in advance.
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ianw1974 · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject:

Have you got acpid installed?

If not, emerge this and then:

boblu · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 40

Actually, I installed acpid on my lapatop.

But as a try, I re-installed acpid and did what you said.

Unfortunately, it can not solve my problem of shutdown, reboot, logout or swith console.

In fact, I did not have those problem before I compiled fbbuffer and installed compiz fusion.

So I really doubt those problems have something to do with the fbbuffer setting or with the xorg.conf file.

Any ideas?
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zahlberer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 138

I am having precisely the same problem you described.

I am a fluxbox user and have compíled my kernel with vesa-tng. Xorg was compiled with support to my i810 video card.

I turn the computer off by going root and typing poweroff. Then conky, gkrellm, idesk and any other applications currently running stop and the shutdown signal is broadcasted.

A curious fact is that the behaviour of the terminal is as if many '\n' 's were sent to stdout since there are many newlines.

Then the screen goes black and I start to pray (even considering I am an atheist). Sometimes it goes back to tty and many times it keeps black forever. Notice the laptop does not shutdown if the screen goes black, making me press the "death" button for the sad 4 seconds.

This is a very serious bug and should be given attention. One of the most fundamental things one should be able to do with one's computer is turn it off.

Before Xorg the computer used to halt properly. When I emerged xdm (a hell virus which installs in your machine but you can not take it off!!!) I felt deep regret because Xorg must be started now. I did most of my work in the terminals, but now I am forced to start Xorg every time.

I am really in the same situation as you. At least we are not alone.

drutten · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject:

This is a common problem if you have an intel graphics card and the stable drivers.
revert to drivers below 2.0.0

zahlberer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 138

After masking the package, should I just run emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810?

Can I reinstall the driver from Xorg?

Thank you.

boblu · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 40

zahlberer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 138

zahlberer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 138

I want to thank you for the hint.

This version of the driver completely solved all of my problems.

The only thing that must be observed is that it is necessary to change the intel driver in xorg.conf to i810, otherwise X will not start.

About xdm, I just removed the .Xauthority file from my home directory and X started.

Thanks, I will enjoy my gentoo box more now.

boblu · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 40

Thank you all.
Downgrading the i810 driver to 1.7.4 has completely solved all my problems.

The new i810 driver >= 2.0.0 does have some problems which should be taken care of.

Thank you all again.
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