Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:30:57 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Remington L." <cableboy@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1 Message-ID: <20030610173057.62AD75D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Remington L." <cableboy@charter.net> <auto-000052404612@remt30.cluster1.charter.net>
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What you are seeing is probably the most literal demonstration of bit rot I can imagine. It sounds like the effect one gets from turning off the drive to the LCD panel, but leaving the back-light on. It's very odd looking. Most likely something in XFree86 is telling the video card to do something it does not like and, rather than drive the screen with potentially damaging signals, it just turns off. When you went from 4.8 to 5, did you hange versions of XFree86? Is the XF86Config file changed? Sounds like something must have changed in the XFree86 stuff that really upset the graphics system to the point it simply turned off. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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