[Dell Inspiron 6400] Laptop screen is turned off, needs shutdown to work again
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 13.10, release: 13.10
xorg: Installed: 1:7.7+1ubuntu6
Have you experienced just one lockup, or have you had a series of these lockups?
- I had several lockups.
If you've had several, how often does it occur? Every few hours? Once or twice a day? Couple times a week?
- Couple times a week.
When did you first notice it?
- Around a year ago.
Shortly after upgrading?
- Can't remember, could be after the 12.10 upgrade.
After updating?
- Don't think so.
After changing compositing (Desktop Effects) settings?
- Never changed these.
Under what conditions does it seem most likely to reproduce?
- Undetermined, it happens during normal OS usage. It doesn't seem to happen when the laptop is idle.
Only at boot time?
- No, it can also happen after, let's say, several hours of working on the laptop.
When resuming from suspend or hibernate?
- I never suspend or hibernate the laptop.
Only when using compositing (Unity, et al)
Yes, it never happened when in a tty.
When changing resolution or enabling/disabling monitors
- I don't change the resolution or enable/disable monitors.
When the screensaver (or power saving mode) kicks in
- The laptop continues working properly when the screensaver or power saving mode kicks in.
Visiting particular web pages or loading particular files
- Not a particular web page, but it happens when I use FireFox, Google Chrome or Thunderbird.
Switching between desktops
- I never do this.
When performing a specific sequence of actions (List them!)
- I don't have a reproducable situation.
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.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.315.1
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: compiz
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] [1002:7149] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:2003]
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130820.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. MM061
MarkForUpload: True
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu2
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/
ProcVersionSign
Tags: precise ubuntu referred-by-support compiz-0.9
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
dmi.bios.date: 03/09/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0XD720
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: MM061
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.12-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.2
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tags: | added: needs-apport-collect trusty |
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- Laptop screen is turned off, needs shutdown to work again + [Dell Inspiron 6400] Laptop screen is turned off, needs shutdown to work + again |
tags: | added: bios-outdated-a16 |
tags: |
added: bios-outdated-a17 removed: bios-outdated-a16 |
tags: | removed: precise |
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
tags: |
added: latest-bios-a17 precise removed: bios-outdated-a17 |
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
tags: | removed: needs-apport-collect |
tags: | added: vivid |
Steps on https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/X/Troublesh ooting/ Freeze are followed.