Display goes Black Dead while Powe is ON

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#1

Dear, Friends!

I am running openSuse 11.2 on Acer Aspire-One, 1.6/500MB/8GB
and it runs perfectly fine on AC power but whenever I switch to Battery power (on 100% charged state) after sometime (3-5 minutes) the Display goes Black Dead while power light is still green and cpu fan still running and then i have to forcefully shut it down by press and holding power button and restart it.

My friend has the same machine as mine and we installed “Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10” on it and it is giving the same problem.

This is really strange problem and i have fresh installed the openSUSE 11.2 two times but same problem.

PLEASE HELP ME GUYS!!!

Regards,

#2

Disable all sceeensave/powersave
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#3

@caf4926

thanks for your response.
i am using GNOME.
i have disabled screen saver and power settings but problem is same.

ANY OTHER SOLUTIONs…

#4

Hi
Nothing in the BIOS that may be doing something? What happens if you
power up on battery, does the same thing occur?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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#5

@malcolmlewis

yeah same problem occur when i power up on battery :frowning:

#6

Can you put a copy of the /var/log/boot.msg and thel last say 500 lines
of /var/log/messages up on pastebin.com and post back the URL’s.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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#7

@malcolmlewis…

here’s the copy of “/var/log/boot.msg”
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and when i open or copy “/var/log/messages” its says;
“You dont have the permission to open this file”
and
“Permission Denied” respectively…

while i am the only user/administrator…

#8

Hi
You need to be root user;


sudo tail -n 500 /var/log/messages > messages.txt

Also what happens if you just boot to runlevel 3, no GUI?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 4 days 15:19, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.25, 0.26
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#9

hello,

i use ur provided code in command prompt it asked for password i provided it but still i cant access “/var/log/messages”

i boot it from 3rd option in boot menu but still same problem…

i am wondering, is it about APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)?

#10

Hi
Could be, what’s the output from;


acpi -V

When you say 3rd option, do you mean runlevel 3 with no GUI?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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up 6 days 10:13, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.33, 0.23
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#11

the output from “acpi -v” is

acpi 0.09

Copyright (C) 2001 Grahame Bowland.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

i mean 3rd option from “Startup Options”

#12

Malcolm asked for

acpi -V

that’s a Upper case V not v

#13

@malcolmlewis & @caf4926

the output form upper case V (acpi -V) is;

Battery 1: charging, 65%, 00:00:38 until charged
No support for device type: thermal
AC Adapter 1: on-line

#14

Hi
Are you sure the battery is OK? Seems strange to be at 65% and will be
charged in 38 seconds?

In Gnome if you hover over the battery indicator and click on the icon,
then on the battery, what does it says?

For example;
http://thumbnails16.imagebam.com/6822/a6715a68213663.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/a6715a68213663)

When I meant runlevel 3, you need to enter 3 in the options, see here;
http://thumbnails23.imagebam.com/6822/ede0ff68213664.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/ede0ff68213664)

And you will get to here and login and try unplugging the battery;
http://thumbnails27.imagebam.com/6822/c0eb2068213668.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/c0eb2068213668)

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 7 days 10:00, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.67, 0.58
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#15

hello,
yeah battery is fine and i also use it under Windows XP.

battery information is
http://thumbnails16.imagebam.com/6824/8351ce68230867.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/8351ce68230867)

i boot it to runlevel 3 and after login i unplug the batter now what?

i really appreciate ur kind help…
thanks a lot…

#16

Hi
So if you unplug at runlevel 3, does the screen turn off and you need
to reboot?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 7 days 12:45, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.07, 0.07
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#17

yeah, screen turn off…
do i have to reboot normally or to runlevel 3…

#18

Hi
You can reboot normally, would still like to see the messages, can you
try the previous command as root user?


su -
tail -n 500 /var/log/messages > messages.txt

You could also try the following boot options (same place you entered
the 3)


acpi=off nolapic

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up 8 days 7:42, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.14
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#19

hi, i reboot normally after runlevel 3 but still i cant access “messages” and code didnt work out.

i boot through this “acpi=off nolapic” but it resultd into TOTALLY WHITE SCREEN".

:frowning:

#20

hi, somehow i managed to access
“\var\log\messages” by using this command “sudo su”
to be root user and after entering password i tried to open messages by
this command “gedit messages”
but it didnt work then i use this command “nano messages”
it opened the “messages” but it was hard to copy last 500 lines and then
i use both ur commands
“sudo tail -n 500 /var/log/messages > messages.txt”
and
“su -tail -n 500 /var/log/messages > messages.txt”
but am not sure which one work but bottom line is that one of this command work and created “messages.txt”
containg last 500 lines in “\var\log”

here’s the “messages.txt”, hope you will get some idea that whats the problem,

http://hotfile.com/dl/28975819/0462811/messages.txt.html