When I exit X, dislpay is dimmed ...

Alexvader · 10-16-2009, 05:00 PM

Hi Forum,

When exiting X ( kde4 ) to tty1 to exit via POWEROFF, the characters in tty are hardly seen... very dimmed grey against the black default background...

My GPU is a Radeon Mobility XPress X2300 ( the one that comes with Asus F3Jr laptop ), and works fine under Kde4 from Slackware 13...

Is this some default Vga=.... in LILO that is screwing things up...?

Thanks in advance

Alex

bonaire · 10-17-2009, 04:25 AM

I had the same problems with an older Pc that used a ancient Radeon 9500 and Slackware-12.2. In my case the problem existed on every terminal after switching to runlevel 2 or 3, too.

I suspected X and its Driver but never found a satisfying solution because it had a low priority.
Fglrx or vesa were insufficient solutions in my case, but it is worth a try. It could be a problem with the framebuffer driver, too.

cu

jedi_sith_fears · 10-17-2009, 05:32 AM

Just to inform, it may be a problem with KDE4 power management.

In my notebook, Acer Aspire 5738Z, brightness always set to maximum automatically when I exit KDE4 and reboot. No such problem with any other desktop environments.

Alexvader · 10-18-2009, 11:56 AM

Hi @Bonaire, @jedi_sith_fears

I have solved the problem, defining a different framebuffer... so far so good, there's only one thing that puzzles me... :-(

In the bootscreen there is a stupid "Slackware 00 01 00 01 00"... well it should be "Slackware Linux"... right...?

What can I do to solve this...?

BRGDS

Alex

niels.horn · 10-18-2009, 12:01 PM

This is the standard "splash" screen for LILO in Slackware64.
It's the slack.bmp file in /boot

Change it to whatever you prefer, 640x480 pixels

Alexvader · 10-18-2009, 12:45 PM

Thx Niels,

I will do just that :-)

BRGDS

Alex

tikbalang · 10-19-2009, 10:55 AM

Quote:

I have solved the problem, defining a different framebuffer... so far so good, there's only one thing that puzzles me... :-(

can you please explain the solution further? i have a similar app that does this to all terminals.

Alexvader · 10-19-2009, 12:28 PM

Hi Tikbalang

The only thing that I did was selecting a less demanding framebuffer at install time... instead of the 1024x760x... i selected the 800x600x... whatever...

The hint was that once i did this very same hack with ArchLinux, and it worked like a charm... Though it might me an issue alike in Slackware, tried this and it solved ... at least until now... :-)

BEGDS

Alex

PS But I think ( did not do this though ) that you can still do it in the lilo.conf file... the framebuffer specs live there... find it, edit it, reboot... then feedback wassup... :-)

Didier Spaier · 10-21-2009, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexvader

In the bootscreen there is a stupid "Slackware 00 01 00 01 00"... well it should be "Slackware Linux"... right...?

Seems this be a mathematical wink from Pat ; just make a binary => decimal conversion and see what you get

Alexvader · 10-21-2009, 06:29 PM

Hi Didier Spaier

Converting bin to dec, i get 01 00 00 00 = 2^6 =...

64..... yyyyeessss ;-D

I will KEEP this bootscreen...

Patrick Volkerding is The Man.

BRGRDS

Alex