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#1 2015-02-02 00:58:49
- apastuszak
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[Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
I've been having problems booting my ThinkPad T440. More often than not, it boots to a black screen. Looking carefully at the screen it looks like it's off. I get graphics all the up until GDM loads. Soon as the GUI starts, the screen shuts off. If I reboot it, it will eventually get me to a GDM login, but the display brightness is down to the lowest possible setting. Sometimes one reboot will get me to GDM.. Sometimes it takes as many as 10 before I am able to log in.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
It appears the T440 had an Intel HD Graphics 4600 Video Card.
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#2 2015-02-02 15:29:46
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Did you check your dmesg and Xorg logs for errors? You should find useful information in them, you also might want to upload them to pastebin and then link them here.
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#3 2015-02-02 15:39:30
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Had a similar issue using GNOME 3 a while ago (X61). Switch to UXA as described on the Intel wiki page.
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#4 2015-02-02 22:14:21
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Had a similar issue using GNOME 3 a while ago (X61). Switch to UXA as described on the Intel wiki page.
This appears to have fixed my issue. Further testing will be neeed. I've 3 successful reboots so far. I'll keep testing and see whay happens. Thanks for the tip!
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#5 2015-02-02 22:44:10
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Glamor seems to be stable now -- I've been using it for a while on my HD4600 under GNOME 3 with no issues.
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#6 2015-02-03 02:48:14
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Glamor seems to be stable now -- I've been using it for a while on my HD4600 under GNOME 3 with no issues.
What advantage does Glamour give me over SNA or UXA?
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#7 2015-02-03 04:18:00
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Wow. switching to UXA fixed all the problems I had with my docking station and external monitor!
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#8 2015-02-03 06:57:13
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
Great, please mark your topic as [Solved] by editing the first post title.
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#9 2015-02-03 10:28:44
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Re: [Solved] Boot problem with ThinkPad T440 with Intel Graphics
What advantage does Glamour give me over SNA or UXA?
Glamor was merged into the X.Org server in version 1.16 and provides 2D acceleration implemented over OpenGL so X.Org DDX drivers no longer need to implement 2D-specific code-paths.
It is universal amongst OpenGL/OpenGL ES supported hardware, so this link is relevant to Intel drivers as well:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTQ3NTY
Jin, Jîyan, Azadî
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