[Debian-eeepc-devel] New tests was: Weird behavior with display

Alan Jenkins sourcejedi.lkml at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 4 10:08:35 UTC 2009


On 11/3/09, Ernesto Domato <edomat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 18:02, Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> wrote:
>> Ernesto Domato wrote:
>>> My next move will be upgrade to Sid and try to see if my theory is
>>> right (or at least part of it) by upgrading gnome-power-manager and
>>> see if that provokes the behavior again.
>>
>> Yes, but you could hold devicekit to see if that works, then update
>> devicekit.
>>
>
> No, I couldn't because gnome-power-manager from Sid depends on
> devicekit-power. Anyway, after upgrading that package to Sid it also
> upgraded gnome-session and I can't reproduce the behavior again so I
> guess that the problem is more subtle. I don't discard that the
> devicekit-power package could be part of the problem because the first
> time that I started having the problem with my display was when I was
> upgrading my system several days ago and one of the things that get my
> attention was that package being installed and reading that it is
> going to replace HAL in the future.
>
> I'll keep doing test by upgrading or installing more packages related
> with the display (I already upgraded GDM without consequences) like
> installing splashy for splash boot that I used before and it uses
> framebuffer (sorry Alan that I responded to that question wrongly
> too).
>
> Thanks,
> Ernesto.

Yes, splashy would definitely be a candidate to my eyes :-).

I would also suggest ConsoleKit as a remote possibility.  ConsoleKit
monitors logins and VT switches, which you've mentioned as affecting
the blackscreen behaviour.  It might be triggering something strange.

Alan



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