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Hey everybody,
yesterday I updated my Arch. Since then I have a problem with rebooting/shutting down the system. I had it in runlevel 3 as well as 5.
When I try to reboot or shutting down the system the screen turns black and keeps black. Regulary, I would expect to see several services shutting down.
I can't do anything but to reset the system manually. After such a reset the boot screen didn't show up properly ('no signal' message). I had to switch off power supply and wait some seconds to fix this.
This is really weird and I think it must have to do something with my Radeon HD 5700. Before I had a NVidia card with none of such problems.
Anyway, I installed the radeon driver (xorg) yesterday and its working good so far in kde and so on. Before I had the catalyst driver installed, but as far as I can tell I deinstalled it correctly. I also deleted the xorg.conf.
I hope someone can give me a hint for this problem, because I couldn't find any. The most strange thing was the blank screen at boot after the failed shutdown.
Thanks in advance,
bel
Last edited by belbono (2010-12-03 18:00:52)
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I'm using the ati os driver and after updating to the newest release some days ago, then i'm experiencing the same as you, but only in xorg as I can shutdown/reboot fine in console. The screen goes blank if trying to reboot/shutdown or ctrl+alt+backspace in xorg, so I either need to login to a VT and shutdown from there, or go to VT1 and press ctrl+c and then reboot. I need KMS as else I cannot switch to any VTs, but maybe you could try disabling that(add 'nomodeset' as kernel boot parameter to '/boot/grub/menu.lst')
Edit: hd5450 here...
Last edited by mhertz (2010-10-07 15:47:29)
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Thanks for the hint. I also found something that is known as POWER OFF problem which sounds like my problem in some terms.
Anyway, I tried to add 'nomodeset' to the kernel parameter line in grub, but this didn't help. KDE started up normally, but when I clicked on 'reboot' the screen turned black and the monitor started to look for any signal.
What I also did last time was including the radeon module into my initrd - If thats important in any way..
At least I could power up and boot the computer properly this time.
Last edited by belbono (2010-10-10 17:30:57)
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Performance is better now with a new driver version. So I guess this can be considered as solved.
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