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grindv1k

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Registered: 2015-11-15

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Lenovo Thinkpad dies. Screen flickers. See video. Is this hardware?

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMAptIdeBw

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1, believe it is 2nd gen (the one with capacitative buttons for those who care).

Window manager is i3. I have stopped using xf86-video-intel if that matters.

At the end of the video it does not get worse. I can still open a terminal and type "reboot" and enter to reboot, and the screen resets itself.

I also THINK it only happens on battery, not while plugged in.

Have any of you seen this before? Do you think it is software or hardware related?

I have no idea how to debug this.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad dies. Screen flickers. See video. Is this hardware?

Do you think it is software or hardware related?

I have no idea how to debug this.

You should be able to test this easily by simply booting up a (live usb of) different distro/os.

I also ditched xf86-video-intel, but some systems do need it (it seems).  So you could try reinstalling it and just setting uxa acceleration as needed (if sna is buggy).

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