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letdownunderrated

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Registered: 2025-06-03

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Display artifacts after shutting down Lenovo T60 with radeon X1400

Hello everyone,

i have a fresh install of arch-linux on my old Thinkpad T60 with the ATI X1400 GPU. I am currently running Mate, but this problem happened on other Desktop Environments as well as other distros. I am currently running the latest Linux-LTS Kernel.

The system runs fine overall. However, when i go to shutdown my system i get the usual system shutdown message, then a screen with looks to be corrupted data appears. This hangs the system and it does not properly shut down and has to be forced off. The pattern displayed on the screen is constantly the same. This only happens when shutting down the system from a Desktop Environment, rebooting works fine.

https://imgur.com/a/InZqa60

Journalctl log:

sudo journalctl -p 3 -b
Jun 03 01:56:51 archlinux kernel: x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS
Jun 03 01:56:51 archlinux kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: ASPM: Could not configure common clock
Jun 03 01:56:54 archlinux kernel: thinkpad_acpi: acpi_evalf(BCTG, dd, ...) failed: AE_NOT_FOUND
Jun 03 01:56:55 archlinux kernel: ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__.HKEY: BCTG: evaluate failed

things I've tried:

• mesa-amber drivers.

• normal Linux kernel instead of the LTS variant.

• wayland and x11

all to no avail.

I'm running out of ideas, and i would appreciate some help. Thank you!

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Display artifacts after shutting down Lenovo T60 with radeon X1400

the x1400 uses an rv515 chipset which should still work fine with regular mesa .

If you goto console and execute poweroff , does shutting down also give those artifacts ?
(in case you get command not found, install systemd-sysvcompat)

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letdownunderrated

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Registered: 2025-06-03

Posts: 2

Re: Display artifacts after shutting down Lenovo T60 with radeon X1400

Thank you for the clarification with the mesa driver.

And yes, if i execute poweroff i still get the artifacts.
I did some messing around with kernel parameters and turned ACPI off, which seemed to fix the artifacts. So it is something to do with the ACPI controller not working correctly.