From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: My HP Omnibook 4150 with and ATI Rage Mobility video driver freezes and goes into a mode wher the LCD panel itelf looks like there's an electrical problem. The boot /seems/ to proceed normally just without further video. Rebooting to the older kernel-2.6.6-1.435 kernel does not demonstrate the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1 Actual Results: Wacko video. Expected Results: Normal non-wacko video. Additional info:
which exact driver are you using ? Anything in the kernel logs (dmesg) ?
xorg "ati" driver It blew chunks after X started while starting other services so dmesg was already complete. However the last entry in boot.log was: mdmpd: mdmpd failed However -- I got it to boot under this kernel. I'm still playing with it, but it was happening consistently. Dunno what could have been the issue other than some chipset latch sticking somewhere.
I just thought that point in the boot.log is when xorg switches back to text mode before switching back into graphics mode for the login screen. Perhaps it's an AGP/video mode issue?
This isn't happenenig again. Either it's a fluke or the casue has been ironed out in the last kernel released pushed in the last few days. I'm running 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 now.