Hi,
I have an old Toshiba Tecra 9000 which I have 'converted' into a photo frame re-using all the original boards and screen.
I have an issue where the display goes dark but will not power off and the back light is lighting up the room. I am trying to console in and power down the screen using:
Code:
xset dpms force off
xset: unable to open display ""
sudo vbetool dpms off
This command hangs the console window
When I run xrandr to attempt to disable the display with:
Code:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
I get:
Code:
xrandr
Can't open display
The laptop is picking up on the correct VGA driver:
Snippet of cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Code:
[ 43.056] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so
[ 43.082] (II) Module savage: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 43.082] compiled for 1.12.1, module version = 2.3.4
[ 43.082] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 43.082] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
[ 43.083] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 43.083] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 43.218] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 43.218] compiled for 1.12.1, module version = 2.3.1
[ 43.218] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 43.218] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
[ 43.218] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 43.219] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 43.234] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 43.234] compiled for 1.12.1, module version = 0.4.2
[ 43.234] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
[ 43.234] (II) SAVAGE: driver (version 2.3.4) for S3 Savage chipsets: Savage4,
Savage3D, Savage3D-MV, Savage2000, Savage/MX-MV, Savage/MX,
Savage/IX-MV, Savage/IX, ProSavage PM133, ProSavage KM133,
Twister PN133, Twister KN133, SuperSavage/MX 128, SuperSavage/MX 64,
SuperSavage/MX 64C, SuperSavage/IX 128, SuperSavage/IX 128,
SuperSavage/IX 64, SuperSavage/IX 64, SuperSavage/IXC 64,
SuperSavage/IXC 64, ProSavage DDR, ProSavage DDR-K
[ 43.236] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 43.236] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[ 43.236] (++) using VT number 7
[ 43.281] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 43.281] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 43.281] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[ 43.281] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
The EDID of the screen is:
Code:
sudo get-edid | sudo parse-edid
parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
VBE version 200
VBE string at 0xc2d2a "S3 Graphics Incorporated. Paramount video BIOS"
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
bff7e214:b7795798: B779F000 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!
halt_sys: file îVy·<, line -1216784488
Function unsupported
Call successful
Reading next EDID block
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call failed
The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged
parse-edid: IO error reading EDID
Running Xorg -configure to refresh the config yields the following log:
Code:
[ 76736.317] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 76736.317] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 76736.317] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 76736.317] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 76736.318] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 76736.318] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[ 76736.318] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 76736.319] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 76736.333] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 76736.333] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 0.0.2
[ 76736.333] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.1
[ 76736.333] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 76736.334] Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please? I am out of idea's and googling has only got me this far.
