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[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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Next time it goes will connect to an external monitor.  If the external is
working and the other is not, then I'll know it's not software.

garyk
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