On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 09:25:12PM +0200, Patrick Lists wrote:
Hi Fred,
On 07/18/2013 08:50 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
>hi gang!
>
>I've put F19 on my Acer Aspire One (dual-core Atom) where it mostly runs
>just fine.
>
>but I've noticed one oddity (by no means a show-stopper) during boot:
>when it prompts for the LUKS password (for the encrypted /home partition)
>the box for password entry flashes on the screen, then the screen goes
>blank for 30 seconds (or so) then the box appears again.
>
>I noticed a day or two ago that if there's a bright lamp shining on the
>screen when it is in that blank state that the box is in fact still drawn
>there, but it appears that the screen backlight has been shut off--I can
>still see the image of it faintly in the bright light.
>
>Everything else regarding screen behavior is fine, but this one is
>pretty consistently occurring every system boot.
>
>This did not occur immediately after installation, but I first noticed
>it only a week (or so) ago (sorry, I wasn't taking notes...) so one
>wonders if some update has caused it.
>
>Any ideas on this one?
Iirc there have been some reports by people that they had to
downgrade the xorg server package. Have you tried that?
I wouldn't think X would be involved when the LUKS password is requested,
it hasn't even booted up a kernel yet, as I understand it. Am I wrong?
(well, it's probably running the kernel from the initrd, I suppose,
and trying--or thinking of trying--to check devices it needs and prepare
to switch over to the "real" kernel, or so I would think...)
Other than that, the only semi-similar thing I have seen was during
a recent F19 installation where after some time the screen goes
blank/black (backlight goes off) and nothing would turn the screen
back on. This was a kickstart install with reboot at the end so I
just left it running and after a while it rebooted into a fresh F19
install.
Regards,
Patrick
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