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Title: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: Klinux on January 19, 2015, 05:46:26 PM: [Posting in small parts as I get "Internal Server error" if I post more than a couple of sentences]
I installed Linux Lite 2.2 on an MSI Wind U100 netbook with no problem, installed updates and installed BackupPC.

All was going fine, but after the screen went to sleep/standby/hibernation (I'm not sure which) the screen went black with only the mouse pointer showing and moving on it.
Title: Re: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: Klinux on January 19, 2015, 05:48:08 PM: Rebooting didn't help as it just booted to the black screen again instead of the user login screen. I tried adding "nomodeset" to the Grub boot command. Still no joy. Finally I tried adding "radeon.modeset=0" (which I'd seen recommended somewhere) and that worked.

However the next time the same thing happened, neither "nomodeset" nor "radeon.modeset=0" gets anything other than the black screen with the mouse pointer.
It still seems to be running fine as I can operate BackupPC by accessing it via the web on another PC I've got on the network.

I believe the Chipset is Intel 945GSE.

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: altman on January 19, 2015, 06:42:39 PM: Post results from inxi -F in Terminal , someone will be able to give you a hand .
Title: Re: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: Klinux on January 19, 2015, 07:10:01 PM: Okay, inxi -F screenshot attached.

Not sure why it's showing cache data failures. Is that a problem?

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Title: Re: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: altman on January 19, 2015, 07:22:42 PM: Guess I would do this from what I saw in a forum .

Boot on a LiveCD or LiveUSB and to try "testdisk" package. Maybe your hdd s screwed up . Don t know , Hopefully it isn t .

This link might help you mate ;

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

If this has good results then it s something else .

Also , a lspci command in Terminal will help . Might be something else as stated above .
Title: Re: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: rokytnji on January 19, 2015, 10:18:02 PM: Write cache errors are on /dev/sdb. Not /dev/sda which is the internal hard drive .

Intel 945 Graphics chip using the intel driver seems OK to me in INXI report I am looking at.

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Finally I tried adding "radeon.modeset=0" (which I'd seen recommended somewhere) and that worked.

No ati chip in graphics so Not sure why that worked. So. Referring to the AntiX forum where something kind of similar, happened. But they had X. But specs are same as Yours.

http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=36936&hilit=intel

I'm running SaliX Slackware 14.1 Fluxbox on one of my netbooks.

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harry[~]$ inxi -zv7 System: Host: darkstar.example.net Kernel: 3.10.17-smp i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 dm: gdm Distro: Slackware 14.1 Machine: System: manda (portable) product: Intel powered classmate PC version: Gen 1.5L Mobo: N/A model: N/A Bios: American Megatrends version: CM94515A.86A.0024.2008.0715.1716 date: 07/15/2008 CPU: Single core Intel Core CPU N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB flags: (nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3192.04 Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 1333.00 MHz Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27ae X.Org: 1.14.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa) Resolution: [email protected] GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 9.1.7 Direct Rendering: Yes Audio: Card: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.10.17-smp Network: Card: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: ec00 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A IF: wlan0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A Drives: HDD Total Size: 63.6GB (4.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: KingSpce_KSD size: 63.6GB serial: 984082600254 Optical: No optical drives detected. Partition: ID: / size: 15G used: 2.6G (18%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda1 label: N/A uuid: f1514248-82a4-4793-b2e4-2d94b3e953d7 ID: /home size: 44G used: 33M (1%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda3 label: N/A uuid: 97334dd8-0850-42fb-bda2-4b80af118be1 ID: swap-1 size: 1.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A uuid: cbccfa7b-652e-44cd-b7e1-be88c61f634a RAID: System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4 multipath No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present Unused Devices: none Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 123 Uptime: 14 min Memory: 128.8/2005.8MB Runlevel: 4 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell (bash 4.2.45 running in xterm) inxi: 1.9.17
Mine is a N270 Atom CPU while yours is a N280 Atom CPU. Graphics chip looks the same as your netbook.

So putting yours to sleep with 2gig of ram with 2gig of swap should not have hurt anything.
I am just breaking all this down so to get all the ducks in a row so other members can reply intelligently.

I am busy right now. Cracking a password protected .rar which will take me a long while.

Edit: Oh yeah. Here is the screen shot I took of the downloaded pdf that Klinux uploaded. Saves some time.

(http://postmyimage.com/img2/689_inxi_tn.jpg) (http://postmyimage.com/img2/689_inxi.png)
Title: Re: Black screen problem on MSI Wind U100
Post by: Klinux on January 21, 2015, 03:39:16 AM: Thanks for your replies.
I'm going away for a few weeks so will have to pick up on this again when I get back.