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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-03-04 13:18:10
I had similar problems with different versions and different kernels. Some would lock solid during boot, some had windows leaving trails if you moved them with jerky scrolling etc. and some would reboot on resume from suspend. I have been running Squeeze pretty much since Lenny went stable and things were fine for about 6 months until I think an xorg upgrade broke it, and I stuggled ever since until I found a combination that works.
Which version are you using? Have you tried more than one kernel/driver combination? Have you tried the combo that works for mine? If you use sgfxi to install the driver, you can choose which version to install eg.
As root:sgfxi -o 10-11It is recommended to run sgfxi out of X
sgfxi -h gives you a list of options
sgfxi -L d for list of available drivershttp://smxi.org is the smxi and sgfxi home page, if you have not tried it before.
I don't know, I think I'm going to give up. Open driver crashes on me, 11.2 is ultra-glitchy, 10.12 works but GUI is laggy, performance is really laughable with compiz.
It seems that I have to come to terms with reality: Linux is not an adequate solution for this laptop. Linux does not support this laptop's hardware. At least not on functional, usable level.
#2 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-03-04 11:54:54
I had similar problems with different versions and different kernels. Some would lock solid during boot, some had windows leaving trails if you moved them with jerky scrolling etc. and some would reboot on resume from suspend. I have been running Squeeze pretty much since Lenny went stable and things were fine for about 6 months until I think an xorg upgrade broke it, and I stuggled ever since until I found a combination that works.
Which version are you using? Have you tried more than one kernel/driver combination? Have you tried the combo that works for mine? If you use sgfxi to install the driver, you can choose which version to install eg.
As root:sgfxi -o 10-11It is recommended to run sgfxi out of X
sgfxi -h gives you a list of options
sgfxi -L d for list of available drivershttp://smxi.org is the smxi and sgfxi home page, if you have not tried it before.
I'm using:
Linux 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-amd64 x86_64
ati-driver-11-2-x86.x86_64
I will try more combinations now, as you suggested. I just install smxi and I'm reading about it. I'll let you know. I didn't know about smxi before.
Update: I have tried 10.12 driver and IT WORKS without glitches. However, there is a lot of lag, when I resize windows etc. I'll try to fix it.
#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-03-03 16:27:40
Another thought: my current main machine (sony vaio) uses the ati 3400 series graphics, and I cant get the open source driver to work properly. I had faint horizontal interference lines running across my screen using the stock debian kernel. I ended up, after a lot of experimentation, using smxi to install liquorix 2.6.34 kernel and the fglrx/catalyst version 10.12. That combination is the only one I found that works perfectly on any Debian Squeeze based OS, and I am sticking with it! May be worth experimenting with different combos if you are sure it isnt a hardware problem.
Thank you for you feedback.
I think the problem IS the open source driver.
The proprietary driver works fast for me, performance is great, and it never crashed so far. BUT for me ... it leaves SO many screen artifacts, window trails, inconsistencies, doesn't draw window border/decoration properly at all, etc. Video tearing ... etc. etc.
#4 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-03-02 13:04:10
Miks: yes, I think it definitely hangs. No response. Although I didn't wait too much. I will do next time.
Thanks for the replies. Isn't it weird however, that if the problem is hardware-related, it does not occur under Windows7? (And did not occur when I had Ubuntu a few weeks ago?)
I posted the same problem on Reddit, and someone suggested it might be connected to hibernation. Indeed, the first problem after installing #! was that MY COMPUTER FROZE AFTER HIBERNATION.
Then I found a solution to that problem on these forums, but this new screen of death started to appear randomly. Could it be connected?
#5 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-03-02 09:28:51
That is a strange issue. All I can suggest is checking about in /var/log not sure whether the error would be listed in /var/log/xorg.0.log
There's a lot of stuff in there. What should I be looking for?
I had Ubuntu before, and there also it never did that screen of death. Only this time, with CrunchBang, after around 15-30 min usage, maybe more, I'm not sure.
#6 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-03-01 17:53:55
Bump. Any ideas what I could try / look into ? What could be causing this ?
#7 Help & Support (Stable) » Screen of Death » 2011-02-28 08:28:33
- Optima
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD3430
HP Laptop 6830s
Open source ATI driver
CrunchBang 10 “Statler” r20110207
Computer dies at random times. Produces a screen of death vaguely resembling this picture: http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs … 952624.jpg - basically a pattern of vertical lines. I don't even know where to start looking to solve this one, as no error message is produced. The screen of death completely kills my computer, I have to restart it using the reset button.
Windows 7 works fine, so I don't think it's my hardware.
Any ideas? Is it the ATI Driver? (I don't use the proprietary one because at least for my model of card, it produces screen lag, artefacts, windows leaving behind trails when moving them around, etc. Unusable.)
Thanks in advance for feedback.
#8 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] Impossible to install on this computer? » 2011-02-23 14:40:59
SOLVED. I have no idea why this worked, but here is what I did. If I put the live CD before starting computer, it hanged. If I put it during BIOS conf, it hanged. So I tried to do this: started computer without CD in, went into BIOS without CD in, pressed F9, choose to start from CD, and right before pressing ENTER I put the CD in. If I put it even a minute before that, it hanged. This laptop is really weird. I'm typing this from crunchbang live cd.
#9 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] Impossible to install on this computer? » 2011-02-23 14:14:34
Here's the thing. It's really, really weird. To boot from CD or USB, I manually click ESC, F9 and select "Boot from CD/DVD", and it tries to boot. So it's not that BIOS skips them.
If I format USB with FAT16, it seems to be able to boot it. If I use win32diskimager to make the USB, computer hangs at boot. The computer hangs with the live CD, too.
I really don't understand it.
The farthest I arrived with this, was making a FAT16 partition on the USB, extracting the #! iso with 7zip onto the USB stick, and then making it bootable with syslinux ...
It did boot from USB, it did show the Crunchbang logo and told me to select kernel (persistent / live / memtest ...) ... but prompt said "boot: " and whatever I typed in, it said it cannot find a kernel.
It's madness.
Also, thank you for the welcome. <3
#10 Help & Support (Stable) » [SOLVED] Impossible to install on this computer? » 2011-02-23 10:39:23
- Optima
- Replies: 7
HP Laptop. Windows7 now, want Linux, specifically, want to try CrunchBang Linux. Downloaded CrunchBang ISO, burned CD, reboot, nothing happens. Figure my CD burner doesn't work, so I burn from another computer. Try to boot with CD, nothing. Figure my CD must be broken.
Good, I think, no problem. UNetbootin -> put ISO on USB stick. Boot, ignores the USB stick and goes to Windows (even though I press F10 and explicitly tell it to boot from USB). Next, I use another program to make the USB, the one suggested on CrunchBang website (Win32something). This time the computer doesn't even want to boot if the USB stick is in!
I think, OK, I need to try to make the USB from Linux with the "dd" command. I install WUBI/Xubuntu, and make the USB stick from there. Reboot, nothing. If USB is in, computer hangs, and the USB stick's light goes on and off repeatedly forever. - BUT if I put the stick in in Xubuntu, it reads it normally. At boot times, it hangs computer. I don't understand.
So now I have a Windows 7, Xubuntu on Wubi, and no idea how to install CrunchBang on a computer that resists every attempt of installing it (but is my only computer, so I have to find a way). - I even tried a manual install of Arch by making partitions etc from the Wubi/Xubuntu, but it seems my knowledge isn't enough to perform such a task (the last stage, the GRUB stage, fails).
Any ideas?
EDIT: SOLVED. I have no idea why this worked, but here is what I did. If I put the live CD before starting computer, it hanged. If I put it during BIOS conf, it hanged. So I tried to do this: started computer without CD in, went into BIOS without CD in, pressed F9, choose to start from CD, and right before pressing ENTER I put the CD in. If I put it even a minute before that, it hanged. This laptop is really weird. I'm typing this from crunchbang live cd.
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