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[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26 August 2014 08:29, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On my asus netbook I've got xubuntu 12.04 and bodhi installed.  On both
> > systems the screen goes all white on a regular basis.  How can I tell if
> > it's a software or hardware issue?  The fact that it happens on both
> > suggests to me it's hardware, especially since they use different
> kernels.
> >
> > This message keeps getting kicked back by the xubuntu mailing list.  I
> have
> > had no responses from Bohdi forums.
> >
> > Perhaps there is a error message recorded somewhere?
>
> See if you can switch to a terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F1, that should
> give you a terminal where you can login.  Go back to your normal
> session with Ctrl+Alt+F7.
>
> If you can get to the terminal then you can login and look at the log
> files, for example
> tail -f /var/log/syslog
> From the terminal you can do a safe shutdown with
> sudo shutdown -h now
>
> If you cannot get to a terminal then reboot and look at syslog to see
> if anything there at the point of failure.
>
> Another thing you can try is to boot into a live image and select the
> ram test option.  Leave it running for long enough to see if you get
> the problem, and also watch for ram errors.
>
> Colin
>
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Been on all day without a problem since early this morning.  It failed then
when I was moving the screen to the wide open position.  I did not see any
error messages when I ran tail -f /var/log/syslog.  I tried opening and
closing the screen a 12 times but it the problem did not recur.  It failed
again just now when I moved the screen back and forth.  I got an error
message:

tail -f /var/log/syslog
Aug 26 17:44:58 bodhi32-1025CE wpa_supplicant[1061]: WPA: Group rekeying
complet
ed with 74:88:8b:d1:e7:80 [GTK=TKIP]
Aug 26 18:15:12 bodhi32-1025CE kernel: [27984.233136] keyboard: can't
emulate ra
wmode for keycode 240
Aug 26 18:15:13 bodhi32-1025CE kernel: [27984.233157] keyboard: can't
emulate ra
wmode for keycode 240
Aug 26 18:15:13 bodhi32-1025CE kernel: [27984.233165] asus_wmi: Unknown key
57 p
ressed
Aug 26 18:15:57 bodhi32-1025CE acpid: client 1062[0:0] has disconnected
Aug 26 18:15:57 bodhi32-1025CE acpid: client connected from 1062[0:0]
Aug 26 18:15:57 bodhi32-1025CE acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Aug 26 18:16:13 bodhi32-1025CE acpid: client 1062[0:0] has disconnected
Aug 26 18:16:13 bodhi32-1025CE acpid: client connected from 1062[0:0]
Aug 26 18:16:13 bodhi32-1025CE acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Aug 26 18:17:01 bodhi32-1025CE CRON[16737]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

To get the screen back I wiggled the cover.  But now as I am sitting here
and moving it back and forth.  Doing has no effect.

This seems odd.

garyk
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