Strange screen on shutdown

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Fri Mar 18 12:41:21 UTC 2005


> Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> coming late with this issue, i know.
>>
>> Remarked yesterday, that if i shutdown my pc, i won't get the usual screen, where i see all services going down. there
>> is a  corrupt screen with blue border and grey inside, the letters are not readable, i just see stripes, i just
see, that almost all services are going down correctly due to green color (except one) :-)
>>
>>
>> Roger
>>
>
> I noticed the blue border surrounding the terminals when I tested for an
>   Intel 815 card. (Rawhide).
>
> To me, this sounds like the screen driver that is responsible for the virtual terminal and not the driver for X.
(Probably wrong though)
>
> You probably should find out your video card using /sbin/lspci and checking bugzilla for the blue border problem.
>
> At least the computer shuts down, though barely readable display is not a nice feature.
>
> I had the blue border on a CRT monitor. With your washed out screen, it sounds like you are using an LCD display.
>
> Jim
>


in fact, it is a lcd-display. my driver is a s3:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C380 [ProSavageDDR K4M266] (rev 02)






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