Re: gdm amd64 behaviour on shutdown different from that on i386
Jack Warkentin <[email protected]>
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Thanks for the reply. The motherboard is an Asus M4A78LT-M with ATI on-board video. I use the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver. Vasilios Karaklioumis wrote: > Same happens to kubuntu 11.04 for me,do you use the ati catalyst driver? > On debian (aptosid amd64) without cat doesn't happen though. > > Jack Warkentin<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everybody >> >> From the gdm login screen, if I use the "actions" menu to shutdown the >> system, what happens differs on my amd64 desktop from my i386 netbook. >> >> Specifically, on the i386 netbook, the screen switches to tty1 and the >> shutdown messages are displayed. On the amd64 desktop, the screen goes >> black, nothing more is displayed, and the monitor indicates that output >> is no longer being received from the computer. >> >> I am running Debian testing on both systems and just finished upgrading >> to linux-image-2.6.39-2-amd64 version 2.6.39-3 on the desktop, and the >> gdm version is 2.20.11-4. >> >> I believe the above behaviour is a bug. It doesn't happen when using >> "reboot" from the "actions" menu, ie when rebooting, the screen switches >> to tty1 and the shutdown messages do indeed appear. >> >> As far as I can determine, this behaviour started sometime in late April >> or early-to-mid May. Since gdm version 2.20.11-4 was installed last >> December, the problem does not appear to be with that package. Nor does >> it appear to be kernel-related, since the same thing happens with both >> my 2.6.38 and 2.6.32 kernels, which I still have installed. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is causing this behaviour? >> >> Jack Warkentin, phone 902-404-0457, email [email protected] >> 39 Inverness Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3P 1X6 >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >> -- Jack Warkentin, phone 902-404-0457, email [email protected] 39 Inverness Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3P 1X6