[Qi - SHR-U/All?] Pink line of death

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

As an added info, I've just hit the pink line of death *without* omnewrotate
running in the background (it would wreack havok with omneon and horizontal
images... like comic strips...

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:27:47PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> It's not omnewrotate. If you're lucky, using omnewrotate may help
> you recover that screen state.
> 
> All omnewrotate does is infer a position from the accelerometers and
> using the xrandr API to rotate the screen
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/omnewrotate/source/browse/trunk/src/omnewrotate.c#264
> 
> So if you want a culprit you can look at libxrandr, although I'm looking
> quite more seriously at that damned glamo chip.
> 
> As to your last question, just chmod 000 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/*omnewrotate
> 
> Rui
> 
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 10:04:49AM +0200, Andreas Fischer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've also seen this bug and I've also tracked it down to OMNewRotate. My
> > solution so far was to always disable rotation before going into
> > suspend. Not doing so seems to give a chance of (almost?) 100% failure.
> > Note, that I keep the freerunner strapped in a horizontal position to my
> > belt - so during suspend it will almost certainly be rotated, unless
> > rotate has been switched off.
> > 
> > Interestingly there seems to be a step before the pink line is shown:
> > Sometimes when I boot and do not enter the PIN immediately (but still
> > before suspend), the screen is partly garbled (lower 33% of the screen
> > in portrait mode). After suspend, the pink line shows up.
> > 
> > Listening to the feeling in my gut, I'd say glamo b0rks screen setup
> > when in a rotated position.
> > 
> > Hope this helps to narrow it down. Meanwhile - is there a way to disable
> > OMNewRotate on boot and suspend (i.e. to only enable it manually)?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Andreas
> > 
> > Christ van Willegen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Has anyone seen the 'pink line of death' at any time?
> > > 
> > > My FR sometimes does not suspend, but instead shows a black screen
> > > with a pink/purple line at about 33% from the bottom of the screen.
> > > The backlight is fully on. Also, the screen is whining.
> > > 
> > > I haven't been able to reproduce it with a known procedure, but it may
> > > have to do with rotating the phone during suspend.
> > > 
> > > I also haven't had it in this state on such times that it was possible
> > > to SSH into it to see if it was still alive or not.
> > > 
> > > Shall I file a bug report with this meager information?
> > > 
> > > Christ van Willegen
> > > 
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