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cesura

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

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Pink line down left side of screen?

I recently popped an Arch CD into my newly (sort of) built computer and the install went great. I rebooted, and I was presented with a thin pink line down the left side of my screen. What is this thing (sorry for bad quality pictures. I used a phone camera)?

Close Up:

Full Shot:

Notice it only appears after the kernel is done and the bootscripts start:

A few months back, I installed Arch on the same machine with no issues. I also installed Gentoo earlier today and configured X on this PC, and there was no pink line. NOTE: This also appears when I boot the latest live cd.

Kernel: 2.6.33-ARCH
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X1200 onboard
Monitor connection: HDMI

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lagagnon

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

Did you try pressing the "Auto" screen adjust button on your monitor?

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cesura

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

Did you try pressing the "Auto" screen adjust button on your monitor?

Yes and it appeared to do nothing.

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eldragon

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

it seems like a modesetting bug to me.....

try to reproduce this in gentoo (use same kernel,display drivers, etcetera)

cesura

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

it seems like a modesetting bug to me.....

try to reproduce this in gentoo (use same kernel,display drivers, etcetera)

Well, another distro I have reproduced this in is Ubuntu 10.04. I downloaded the live cd (to see if it would happen with that) and sure enough, it did. I am thinking it is a problem with the display because I don't recall this happening when I tested it with an old VGA monitor. I'll see if using a VGA connection to my new monitor has any effect.

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cesura

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

Ok, using a VGA connection to my monitor doesn't display the pink line. It seems the HDMI connection is the only one that produces these problems

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

Maybe a driver problem? You could try an older kernel or the 2.6.34 one in [testing].

I have something similar here on my AppleTV, the whole screen will go pink and then be reset to black during the boot sequence, pretty bizarre, happens with all nVidia GPU drivers (nv, nvidia, nouveau). Not entirely the same thing, but it's pink too...

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cesura

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From: Tallinn, Estonia

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Re: Pink line down left side of screen?

Maybe a driver problem? You could try an older kernel or the 2.6.34 one in [testing].

I have something similar here on my AppleTV, the whole screen will go pink and then be reset to black during the boot sequence, pretty bizarre, happens with all nVidia GPU drivers (nv, nvidia, nouveau). Not entirely the same thing, but it's pink too...

Yeah what I probably will do is downgrade the kernel to an earlier version, most likely 2.6.32, because that has been known to work for me

Last edited by cesura (2010-06-04 16:19:13)

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