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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Openmoko community mailing list > > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community