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On 04/10/2013 13:20, Andreas Prieß wrote: |
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> Since I don't know the cause and didn't find a way to debug this, here |
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> are the symptoms: |
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> Ever since media-libs/mesa >= 9.1 went stable I had the problem, that |
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> the switch from Xfce on VT7 back to VT1 on shutdown fails. The screen |
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> goes black and does not show anything, but the system halts as normal. |
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> It is not possible to switch to VT1 by keyboard while the shutdown is |
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> still in progress when this has happened. |
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> I can't find anything in the Xorg or other log files according to this |
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> problem. Can't find anything related in Gentoo bugzilla or searching the |
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> web... |
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> The problem always disappeared by downgrading to mesa < 9.1, but that |
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> now requires other packages to be downgraded too, so I'd like to resolve |
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> this. |
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> It is an AMD64 system with an ATI Barts PRO [Radeon HD 6850] using KMS, |
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> desktop session with Xfce started by x11-misc/lightdm. |
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> Any hints on how to debug this problem would be highly appreciated. |
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I've had a few things similar tot his happen to me over the years. |
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Strangely, each time it has been framebuffer and related settings in the |
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kernel config! (mostly incompatible options selected) |
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What do you have in your kernel config? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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