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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
