Starting reports_server on unattended machine (DISPLAY issue)

I wish to install iAS on a console-less machine in an unattended location. While there is a console (ie. video card and keyboard), there won't be anyone there to actually login to the machine to start the ./report60_server script.
This script requires the DISPLAY variable to be set. Fine, I set it to 0:0. I also have the system (a Linux box) set to start in runlevel 5 (X-windows login screen appears). Of course, it's not logged in because there's nobody there to do so.
When I try to run a report, I get a REP-3000 error, which seems to indicate that the reports server wasn't able to connect to the X-server. I see console error messages in the system log files like this "Xlib: connection to "0:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key".
My question is how should I start the reports server process? I want to start it from an init.d script (or in rc.local) so it starts unattended.
How can I defeat the X-windows authorization schemes, as this machine is behind a firewall anyway, and nobody would be able to start x-sessions on this system anyway.
Ideas?
Bottom line - what's the recommended way of starting reports servers remotely?
Thanks,
Andrew
PS. Please reply to my email address as well as this list - thanks.
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hello,
a way would be to use a soft-terminal like VNC to use as diplay target. but be aware that there is no certification from our side yet. if you have problems with this soft-terminal you have to reproduce them on a regular x-terminal in order to get support to work in it.
regards,
the oracle reports team

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13/10/12 8:39:32.112 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Entering service
13/10/12 8:39:32.193 AM UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: [HandleNetworkInformationChanged:2435] nwi_state_copy returned NULL
13/10/12 8:39:32.000 AM kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
13/10/12 8:39:32.000 AM kernel[0]: IOBluetoothUSBDFU::probe
13/10/12 8:39:32.000 AM kernel[0]: IOBluetoothUSBDFU::probe ProductID - 0x8286 FirmwareVersion - 0x0097
13/10/12 8:39:32.000 AM kernel[0]: [BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport][start] -- completed
13/10/12 8:39:32.000 AM kernel[0]: AGC: 3.2.11, HW version=3.2.19 [3.2.8], flags:0, features:20600
13/10/12 8:39:32.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDAGK100HAL loaded and registered.
13/10/12 8:39:32.586 AM fseventsd[144]: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (87566 7 87588)
13/10/12 8:39:32.586 AM fseventsd[144]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: A93F6A97-D1D4-4728-9B86-3AB73E58340C
13/10/12 8:39:32.599 AM mDNSResponder[146]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-379.32.1 (Aug 31 2012 19:05:06) starting OSXVers 12
13/10/12 8:39:32.645 AM systemkeychain[148]: done file: /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.done
13/10/12 8:39:32.652 AM configd[17]: network changed: DNS*
13/10/12 8:39:32.654 AM mDNSResponder[146]: D2D_IPC: Loaded
13/10/12 8:39:32.654 AM mDNSResponder[146]: D2DInitialize succeeded
13/10/12 8:39:33.245 AM tuxera_ntfs[509]: Version 2012.3.3 (Jul 26 2012 08:57:03) external FUSE 27
13/10/12 8:39:33.245 AM tuxera_ntfs[509]: Mounted /dev/rdisk0s4 (Read-Write, label "BOOTCAMP", NTFS 3.1)
13/10/12 8:39:33.245 AM tuxera_ntfs[509]: Cmdline options: recover,cbcio,sfmconv,streams_interface=openxattr,native_xattr,nfconv,aligned_i o,fstypename=txantfs,fssubtype=0,iosize=1048576,local,adaptiveuid,adaptivegid
13/10/12 8:39:33.246 AM tuxera_ntfs[509]: Mount options: native_xattr,fstypename=txantfs,fssubtype=0,iosize=1048576,local,allow_other,no nempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/disk0s4,volname=BOOTCAMP
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][staticBluetoothHCIControllerTransportShowsUp] -- Received Bluetooth Controller register service notification
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][start] -- completed
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: Universal Audio Apollo - 4.0.0.13440 (x86_64) Mar 12 2012 20:19:07
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController::setConfigState] calling registerService
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: TUFS: starting (version 2012.4.17, x86_64 (10.6+), built Apr 17 2012, 11:40:41)
13/10/12 8:39:33.246 AM tuxera_ntfs[509]: License: Valid.
13/10/12 8:39:33.246 AM tuxera_ntfs[509]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1
13/10/12 8:39:33.301 AM fseventsd[144]: check_vol_last_mod_time:XXX failed to get mount time (22; &mount_time == 0x10ee45528)
13/10/12 8:39:33.301 AM fseventsd[144]: log dir: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.fseventsd getting new uuid: C0009105-8F61-43E9-8563-1BB388632E71
13/10/12 8:39:33.393 AM hidd[540]: Posting 'com.apple.iokit.hid.displayStatus' notifyState=1
13/10/12 8:39:33.409 AM kdc[538]: label: default
13/10/12 8:39:33.409 AM kdc[538]:           dbname: od:/Local/Default
13/10/12 8:39:33.409 AM kdc[538]:           mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key
13/10/12 8:39:33.409 AM kdc[538]:           acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl
13/10/12 8:39:33.432 AM appleeventsd[545]: main: Starting up
13/10/12 8:39:33.435 AM kdc[538]: WARNING Found KDC certificate (O=System Identity,CN=com.apple.kerberos.kdc)is missing the PK-INIT KDC EKU, this is bad for interoperability.
13/10/12 8:39:33.451 AM com.apple.usbmuxd[518]: usbmuxd-296.3 on Jul 25 2012 at 00:28:37, running 64 bit
13/10/12 8:39:33.507 AM loginwindow[535]: Login Window Application Started
13/10/12 8:39:33.508 AM kdc[538]: KDC started
13/10/12 8:39:33.510 AM awacsd[549]: Starting awacsd connectivity-78 (Jul 26 2012 14:37:46)
13/10/12 8:39:33.512 AM apsd[551]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
13/10/12 8:39:33.513 AM apsd[551]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
13/10/12 8:39:33.513 AM awacsd[549]: InnerStore CopyAllZones: no info in Dynamic Store
13/10/12 8:39:33.520 AM aosnotifyd[552]: bootstrap_look_up failed (44e)
13/10/12 8:39:33.539 AM locationd[536]: NOTICE,Location icon should now be in state 0
13/10/12 8:39:33.539 AM locationd[536]: locationd was started after an unclean shutdown
13/10/12 8:39:33.611 AM apsd[551]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)
13/10/12 8:39:33.613 AM coreservicesd[27]: FindBestLSSession(), no match for inSessionID 0xfffffffffffffffc auditTokenInfo( uid=0 euid=0 auSessionID=100000 create=false
13/10/12 8:39:33.615 AM mds[532]: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0
13/10/12 8:39:33.619 AM WindowServer[567]: Server is starting up
13/10/12 8:39:33.624 AM WindowServer[567]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
13/10/12 8:39:33.624 AM WindowServer[567]: Session 256 released (1 references)
13/10/12 8:39:33.635 AM WindowServer[567]: Session 256 retained (2 references)
13/10/12 8:39:33.636 AM WindowServer[567]: init_page_flip: page flip mode is on
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: en0: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
13/10/12 8:39:33.000 AM kernel[0]: en0: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
13/10/12 8:39:33.898 AM fseventsd[144]: Logging disabled completely for device:1: /Volumes/Recovery HD
13/10/12 8:39:34.000 AM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1350110375
13/10/12 8:39:34.000 AM kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en0   Auth result for: 68:7f:74:a1:24:96 MAC AUTH succeeded
13/10/12 8:39:34.831 AM WindowServer[567]: mux_initialize: Mode is dynamic
13/10/12 8:39:34.847 AM WindowServer[567]: GLCompositor enabled for tile size [256 x 256]
13/10/12 8:39:34.847 AM WindowServer[567]: CGXGLInitMipMap: mip map mode is on
13/10/12 8:39:34.933 AM WindowServer[567]: WSMachineUsesNewStyleMirroring: true
13/10/12 8:39:34.933 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x042803c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[840 x 525], 54 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model a00f, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x000006100000a00f00000000042803c0
13/10/12 8:39:34.933 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x003f003f: GL mask 0x8; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003f
13/10/12 8:39:34.933 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x003f003e: GL mask 0x4; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 2, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003e
13/10/12 8:39:34.933 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
13/10/12 8:39:34.934 AM WindowServer[567]: Created shield window 0x5 for display 0x042803c0
13/10/12 8:39:34.934 AM WindowServer[567]: Created shield window 0x6 for display 0x003f003f
13/10/12 8:39:34.934 AM WindowServer[567]: Created shield window 0x7 for display 0x003f003e
13/10/12 8:39:34.934 AM WindowServer[567]: Created shield window 0x8 for display 0x003f003d
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x042803c0: GL mask 0x11; bounds (0, 0)[840 x 525], 54 modes available
Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, boot, Vendor 610, Model a00f, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
UUID 0x000006100000a00f00000000042803c0
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x003f003f: GL mask 0x8; bounds (1864, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 3, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003f
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x003f003e: GL mask 0x4; bounds (1865, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 2, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003e
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (1866, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available
off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0
UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]: CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]:   Display 0x042803c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; Alias(0, 0x11); Vendor 0x610 Model 0xa00f S/N 0 Dimensions 13.03 x 8.15; online enabled built-in, Bounds (0,0)[840 x 525], Rotation 0, Resolution 2
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]:   Display 0x003f003f: MappedDisplay Unit 3; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (1864,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]:   Display 0x003f003e: MappedDisplay Unit 2; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (1865,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]:   Display 0x003f003d: MappedDisplay Unit 1; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (1866,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1
13/10/12 8:39:34.936 AM WindowServer[567]: CGXMuxBoot: Boot normal
13/10/12 8:39:34.998 AM WindowServer[567]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01022647, GL mask 0x0000000f, accelerator 0x00004733, unit 0, caps QEX|QGL|MIPMAP, vram 1024 MB
13/10/12 8:39:35.001 AM WindowServer[567]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01022647, GL mask 0x0000000f, texture units 8, texture max 16384, viewport max {16384, 16384}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
13/10/12 8:39:35.001 AM WindowServer[567]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024400, GL mask 0x00000010, accelerator 0x00004d23, unit 4, caps QEX|QGL|MIPMAP, vram 580 MB
13/10/12 8:39:35.003 AM WindowServer[567]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024400, GL mask 0x00000010, texture units 8, texture max 16384, viewport max {16384, 16384}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT
13/10/12 8:39:35.006 AM loginwindow[535]: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
13/10/12 8:39:35.014 AM hidd[540]: void __IOHIDLoadBundles(): Loaded 0 HID plugins
13/10/12 8:39:35.050 AM WindowServer[567]: Unable to open IOHIDSystem (e00002bd)
13/10/12 8:39:35.092 AM WindowServer[567]: Created shield window 0x9 for display 0x042803c0
13/10/12 8:39:35.092 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x042803c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
13/10/12 8:39:35.108 AM launchctl[585]: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded
13/10/12 8:39:35.124 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100005 created
13/10/12 8:39:35.146 AM hidd[540]: CGSShutdownServerConnections: Detaching application from window server
13/10/12 8:39:35.146 AM hidd[540]: CGSDisplayServerShutdown: Detaching display subsystem from window server
13/10/12 8:39:35.163 AM loginwindow[535]: Login Window Started Security Agent
13/10/12 8:39:35.223 AM SecurityAgent[594]: This is the first run
13/10/12 8:39:35.223 AM SecurityAgent[594]: MacBuddy was run = 0
13/10/12 8:39:35.249 AM WindowServer[567]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x042803c0 device: 0x10158a320 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
13/10/12 8:39:35.281 AM coreaudiod[592]: 2012-10-13 08:39:35.280987 AM [AirPlay] Started browsing for _airplay._tcp.
13/10/12 8:39:35.281 AM coreaudiod[592]: 2012-10-13 08:39:35.281405 AM [AirPlay] Started browsing for _raop._tcp.
13/10/12 8:39:35.000 AM kernel[0]: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask(task_t, void *, UInt32): Client task not privileged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory (e00002c1)
13/10/12 8:39:35.965 AM UserEventAgent[587]: cannot find useragent 1102
13/10/12 8:39:36.935 AM WindowServer[567]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
13/10/12 8:39:36.955 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x042803c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
13/10/12 8:39:36.965 AM WindowServer[567]: Display 0x042803c0: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "Color LCD"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
13/10/12 8:39:37.000 AM kernel[0]: directed SSID scan fail
13/10/12 8:39:39.274 AM SecurityAgent[594]: User info context values set for w00fa
13/10/12 8:39:39.000 AM kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en0   Auth result for: 68:7f:74:a1:24:96 MAC AUTH succeeded
13/10/12 8:39:39.432 AM SecurityAgent[594]: Login Window login proceeding
13/10/12 8:39:39.618 AM loginwindow[535]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
13/10/12 8:39:39.631 AM loginwindow[535]: ERROR | ScreensharingLoginNotification | Failed sending message to screen sharing GetScreensharingPort, err: 1102
13/10/12 8:39:39.657 AM loginwindow[535]: USER_PROCESS: 535 console
13/10/12 8:39:39.000 AM kernel[0]: wlEvent: en0 en0 Link UP virtIf = 0
13/10/12 8:39:39.000 AM kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en0
13/10/12 8:39:39.000 AM kernel[0]: en0: BSSID changed to 68:7f:74:a1:24:96
13/10/12 8:39:39.000 AM kernel[0]: en0::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
13/10/12 8:39:39.706 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[610]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: UserName
13/10/12 8:39:39.706 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[610]: (com.apple.gamed) Ignored this key: GroupName
13/10/12 8:39:39.708 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[610]: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
13/10/12 8:39:39.712 AM loginwindow[535]: Connection with distnoted server was invalidated
13/10/12 8:39:39.717 AM distnoted[615]: # distnote server agent absolute time: 15.385943220   civil time: Sat Oct 13 08:39:39 2012   pid: 615 uid: 501 root: no
13/10/12 8:39:39.000 AM kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en0
13/10/12 8:39:39.967 AM WindowServer[567]: Received display connect changed for display 0x42803c0
13/10/12 8:39:39.998 AM WindowServer[567]: MPAccessSurfaceForDisplayDevice: Set up page flip mode on display 0x042803c0 device: 0x10158a320 isBackBuffered: 1 numComp: 3 numDisp: 3
Thanks!
-w00f

X201s -- External display issues?

So I've jumped with great anticipation on the X201S bandwagon this past month, with an X201S Core i7 640M, along with a self-added Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD running Win7 Pro.
It's a pretty sweet machine; if anything, it just outperforms anything I throw at it! However, I've been having some issues with docked power-on scenarios, where my external display just doesn't want to display anything.
I did some more digging, and I'm suspecting that this may be a firmware-related issue, since usually when the X201S feels 'happy', I get the power-on POST screen on my external display, and everything works-fine from there.
When I don't see the POST screen, I know I'm going to hit some trouble. At this point, I'm 'headless' until I flip-open the notebook's screen, but even that screen is dark, until I login with my fingerprint reader, then start using FN-F7 (switch display), FN-F7 (again), then ENTER. To switch display modes, and eventually OS will detect a device-driver crash on the display device, and then fall into display recovery mode (without AERO)
"Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered."
Further analysis, leads to Dwm.exe which was at the latest display device driver version supported by Lenovo (v8.15.10.2025), and then I recently updated it from Intel's site, to v8.15.10.2085, and still no luck.
It's definitely not a device-driver issue; since I would normally get a POST screen that is before the OS loads. Anyone have any insights, before I open-up a case with Lenovo?
Cheers

called lenovo, they just asked my driver version, system version....after verifying that my display is the latest one downloaded from lenovo, they suggested me run lenovo toolbox to examine compatibility issue....
i'm pretty sure the toolbox won't find anything...and i'm pretty sure that customer representative won't help me solve this issue...
how can we report technical related issues to engineers directly?
Current: X200, X201s (waiting)
Retired: X31

Output display issue in only a particular user account.

Let me start off by noting that I recently switched to mac from windows. Last night I was browsing around the system just getting a feel for the environment when the color / display changed and looked something like a display one would see from booting up in safe mode on a windows machine. I went on to restart and log back into the user account where I was having the display issue, but that did not work. I ran the tech tool deluxe suite to try and find the problem, maybe the video ram? That test came back with no issues to report. I went into the administrator account and found that the display there was normal, and then checked the problem account once more to find that my problem was not solved. Luckily I did not have a lot of information on the problem account so I went onto delete the problem account and recreated a new one. This solved my display issues. Does anyone have any idea why this would have happened or what I can do to prevent it from happening? Should I contact Apple because I am not sure if this may be a hardware/software issue/defect? Thanks.

If you open the Universal Access pane in System Preferences and select "White on Black" in the Seeing tab does that replicate the problem? I'm not familiar with Safe mode on a Windows machine.

GPU/display issue?

Hi
I'm having a serious problem with a mid 2008 intel (alu) iMac (2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, running Mavericks). I think from my searching around that it may be a GPU issue, but could also be display.
The mac won't boot properly, getting no further than the grey screen with apple logo. If started up normally, this screen displays a checked pattern. It goes nowhere and the only way out is to do a hard shut down.
I can boot in safe mode though. In this mode, the mac generally seems to be functioning OK, but instead of checks I have a very fetching set of bands/stripes. They are sometimes pink and orange, but at the moment they are white and turquoise. Each band is made up of a series of eight stripes, each stripe a few pixels wide. There are 13 bands across the screen: the desktop can be seen underneath/through the bands and can also be seen normally between the bands (so I have normal bands and striped bands, each the same width, repeating across the screen). The cursor arrow attracts in own mini striped band - a square the same width as the main bands. (image upside down for some reason!).
As I say, my googling suggests that this is probably a GPU issue (the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, not the apparently dodgy NVIDIA one that seems to have cursed some early 2008 imacs). What I don't get is why I can boot in safe mode but not at all otherwise - what gets disabled in safe mode that allows it to bypass what is otherwise an apparently total barrier to successful booting? When I try to boot normally and get stuck on the Apple logo, I can hear the mac working away, but is just doesn't seem able to go all the way. The really weird thing is that even when it is stuck at this stage, I can still remotely access the iMac from my MBP - I can open and copy files over the network. This suggests that it is in fact sort of booted, but just not displaying itself. I cannot screen share though. When booted in safe mode, I can screen share, and the stripes show up on the shared screen view on the MBP. Again, this suggests to me it is a GPU issue, not a display issue.
Unfortunately, this is my old iMac whcih i have just passed on to my mother in law, who is based 250 miles from me. I am visiting for a few days and so need to either get it sorted or conclude that it's toast (seems little point in forking out for a new GPU for a near six year old machine, even if I could swap it). I don't mind taking it apart (I swapped the hard drive last year) if that woudl help identify the source of the problem.
Any ideas much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Hi Tammy (and anyone else who can help)
That's good news. Things at my end have gone a little strange. I put back all the extensions one by one and was able to boot nromally, even once all of them were back. I did however get a message that the ATI 2600 extension wasn't installed properly, but as it was still booting and I couldn't see any way to reinstall it (other than just popping it back in the extensions folder) I moved on. The screen was getting a bit worse, but still just striped rather than banded.
Having read further threads on similar problems, I decided to take the whole thing apart (great ifixit step by step guide). Nothing seemed amiss - all connections seemed secure, no obvious burnouts. Removed a LOT of dust and put everything back together again.
The machine started straight up when I plugged the power cord back in (I didn't get a chance to press the power button) - the screen flashed briefly round the edges and then stayed black. No stripes, no bands, no image.
I could hear the hard drive spinning, so pressed some buttons on the keyboard and got a warning tone, suggesting some sort of boot. I forced shut down and restarted and then tried to log in with the screen still blank. The bad news is that the screen has stayed black since then. The good news is I now have full remote access and can even screen share. The screen now has no bands when I screen share - I can see and interact with the full screen as normal and have managed to retrieve files etc over the network.
I am still deciding whether to order a new (second hand) video card. Looking in system profiler to get info on this it now shows no info AT ALL under graphics/display and in the 'more info' tab from the apple menu 'about this mac' version of system info it now says "No display detected". I am now unsure whether I have somehow 'blown' the display (I still get a brief white margin round the screen on start up) or whether both graphics card and screen are both goosed, or whether I should take it apart again to make sure the display itself is properly connected. If the graphics card was fubar, would I be able to see anything at all via screen sharing? I don't have an external display I can test it with. I don't want to fork out for GPU only to find it is the display.
Any views on next steps?
Col

Interlacing problem - display issue or something else?

Hi, another interlacing question...
So I captured my footage (originally shot on film, telecined to digibeta) at 10 bit uncompressed to do my online (the offline edit was a 29.97 DVCam dub of that digibeta). Since I'm finishing on 29.97 digibeta, I didn't remove the pulldown as I captured offline or online, and am editing both at my finishing medium's frame rate. So yes, I have the duped fields in there, but it also keeps things simple and I've theoretically been seeing exactly what the finished version will look like the whole time.
Last time I did this workflow I used a G4 running a dual 867 processor with a gig of RAM, and I had some jitter and interlacing "comb" visible when I watched the 10-bit on the Mac, but when I output to digibeta and DVD, it looked fine. So it appeared to be that my computer simply didn't have the juice to display it properly, but that the media itself was fine, as were both ways of outputting.
Now I have a spankin' new Mac Pro with a quad 2.66G processor and 3Gigs of RAM, so I figured that "display issue" was behind me. But not only do I still see jitter and comb on my computer monitor, I also see it much worse on the test DVD I just made. So the problem isn't just the display. The look is very similar to when you capture a clip and remove the pulldown, but fail to start capture on an A frame (but since this is all 29.97, I know that isn't the problem).
I thought it might be that the drives were not fast enough, so I reformatted two of my internal drives into a Raid 0 and put the media there and reconnected it. The raid seems happy, and it's less than half full, but the video doesn't look any better.
Any idea what else could be causing this? I did just upgrade the project from the FCP 4.5 version I started to the FCP 6 on the new machine, plus my experience has been that moving from offline DV to online can allow in some bugs, but the ins/outs, clip names, frame rates, haven't changed. And of course I've been editnig 29.97 DV this whole time without seeing any of the interlacing on the monitor or tyhe outputs. Could field dominance have anything to do with this? I've never adjusted that in previous applications of this workflow, so it doesn't seem relevant, but I confess I'm not sure what I'm messing with there. Do I need still more RAM? The computers we ran at school a couple of years ago were running 10 bit video on G5s without significant upgrades to my knowledge, and this is just a single stream with a few tracks of audio here. I'm afraid to spend any more $$ until I'm pretty confident it'll solve the problem (shoestring budget here of course). Any thoughts?
Many thanks.
-Jeremy

Thanks for the reply. I don't really have a way to hook up my computer to a broadcast monitor. I know I should, but can't really afford the card to do it. So I color corrected my footage carefully during telecine, and for things like this issue, I'm making DVDs quick and dirty through iDVD, then watching them on my home TV (an LCD that plays both SD and HD).
I suppose something in my DVD player and/or TV might be giving me the weirdness in the display, but I think I mentioned I did this same workflow before on a lowly G4, and back then while the computer display showed the interlacing problems, the final output looks fine on the same TV/DVD setup I'm using now. (And I also output that timeline on the previous project to a digibeta master and it looked great too--unfortunately no way to test that digibeta output on the present project without going to a post house, which of course cuts into the budget.)
Maybe I need to bite the bullet and stop being so cheap, but I'm hung up on the fact that it worked fine before, and I can't see how this stronger computer is performing comparatively poorly.
BTW I do see the interlacing in FCP viewer and canvas, but only when it's set to 100% size. And it looks identical in Quicktime as well.
The other thought that just occurred to me is that it might be a codec issue. Perhaps the uncompressed 10 bit codec on my new machine isn't quite the same 10 bit uncompressed as the Kona card used to capture the video for both new and old projects. Maybe my old computer worked ok because that codec was slightly different, or I may have even copied the codec to that computer at some point in the past.
Any of this spur any other ideas? Again I really appreciate the help...
-Jeremy

Unibody Macbook display issue and keyboard backlight issues while booting

I have a 13" aluminum macbook which has been having some issues when booting up. The machine seems to be booting just fine all the way up to the log in screen. The display is normal and everything seems fine. After I log in, the various pieces of the screen start to display (desktop icons, menu bar, etc) and my wallpaper is visible. After a few seconds, the display seems to degrade and the wallpaper image is visible but distorted. It is almost as if the machine is in some sort of safe mode (pardon the windows reference).
Normally, I have my macbook connected to an external display and external mouse/keyboard. After a reboot, this issue occurs. If I put the macbook in sleep mode, and then wake it by clicking the external mouse, the display reappears normally and everything is fine.
The problem is when I am NOT connected to these external devices. The screen stays distorted (like it has lost its full color range) and there are other issues. The keyboard backlight seems to be disables and highlighting text does not work normally. I have tried rebooting, removing the battery and rebooting, resetting the SMC, removing recent applications (chrome, quicklook, etc.). Has anyone heard of or experienced this behavior?
Thanks.

Have you called Applecare? If you sent the machine in and it came back with a cracked case, that seems like an Apple repair to me.
As for the display issue - I think I would accept it and move on. Unfortunately, with these ever-higher resolution displays, we have more dead pixels. Since no one would pay $3000 for a display with 100% no dead pixel guarantee, Apple has to alot for a few dead pixels being acceptable inorder to keep prices reasonable.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=22194
Check with other vendors, this is common practice with LCDs (even HDTVs).
I know it isn't great to hear this, but it is what it is.
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iMac G5, MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
iMac G5, MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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Repeated iMac Problems, Display Issues now Kernel Panics

I’m lost on what’s wrong with my 2008 iMac and I think I just have to bring it back into Apple for a third time to have it repaired. But something is obviously not working that is causing these issues.
About a month ago, my computer began showing heavy pixilation, flickering images and the on-screen graphics. The computer appeared to keep working in the background from what I could tell so I came to conclusion that it must be the graphics card that’s failing and I’ll need to have it looked at.
My 2008 iMac was custom-built by Apple with the Nvidia GeForce 8800GS that was offered as an upgrade option. There have been several posts on the display and graphics discussion board about that graphics card along with other postings other places about the problems the Nvidia GeForce 8-series had.
The display problems I mention above would not happen immediately, it would happen as the computer warmed up and was used for 3-5 minutes.
Anyway I brought my computer into Apple explained to them what I believed was the problem and the Apple Store technician agreed with me. Because I did not purchase AppleCare, it cost me $400 and a week without my iMac to have that card replaced.
I got the computer back two weeks ago and everything seemed fine. It was working as it always had. I even was running SMC Fan Control in order to keep the computer as cool as I could (the Nvidia problem was related to overheating).
But this morning, this is what I woke up to:
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7436/photoijr.jpg
The computer now has a semi-permanent pixilation when it starts up (as suppose to the pixilation 3-5 minutes into use). But more worrisome now is I cannot start up the computer without it going into a kernel panic. I tried resetting the PRAM, I tried starting in safe mode. The only thing I haven’t tried yet is booting from an external HD which I will try this evening (to hopefully isolate it if it’s hardware or a software problem).
The Apple Hardware Test has been unhelpful. When it originally failed three weeks ago, the test showed nothing and this morning when I ran it (permanent pixilation and all), it showed nothing. I feel like if it was a software issue the pixilation would have disappeared during the hardware test because that’s not an OS-X based program.
Here are my specs on this computer:
2008 iMac 24" 2.8ghz Intel Core Duo, 4 gigs of RAM (Crucial Purchased, I have original sticks somewhere), 1 TB HD, Nvidia GeForce 8800GS.

Hi, just to update you, I came home today and did a few things that didn't seem to solve my Mac's problems:
- I booted up from my firewire "safe" drive that I keep a copy os x on to see if I had a corrupted hard drive or something. It booted into the kernel panic I described above.
- I also swapped out the crucial RAM for Apple's factory RAM. It also booted into the Kernel Panic.
In both incidents, the display issues didn't go away. Now instead of pixelization i have vertical bars running in a pattern across my screen.
I'm currently trying to boot onto the OS X CD at this point to see if I could do a reinstall. It's taking quite awhile to boot into that.
With that in mind, I think we're still having graphics card issues or more seriously some logic board problem.

Multi User Calendar Display Issue

When we moved to GW2012 one of our departments that uses a Multi User calendar (5 users in total) noticed some strange display issues.
When User1 is looking at her Multi User Calendar, the client is displaying her appointments in User2's column as well. But if you look at User2's Multi User calendar, you don't see any of User1's appointments in User2's column, so it appears to be a display issue with User1. This same issue is happening with one other user.
All users are on Client 12.0.2, Build 108211 . Interestingly if we look at the calendar on a machine running the GW8 client this display issue does not occur. I have also gone as far as rebuilding the calendar from scratch but this hasn't changed anything.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Steve

Hi
If you open a Service Request with Novell Technical Services you will receive this Field Test File patch for the GroupWise 2012 Client. It is specifically to fix issues with multi-user calenders. Please let us know if you are in a position to open an SR.
Many thanks.
Cheers,

Display issues in XP with Firefox

I just installed Firefox browser to an old XP machine. I am having display issues: sideways lines and "double vision" even on the home page. I know I have an old video card. That has caused sideways lines in videos before. This is a computer my husband uses and loves! I know its a dinosaur. Besides videos in kids programs, I never have had any display problems just browsing the web. And I can watch YouTube videos just fine in my other browsers.

You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
If there are problems with Flash then you can check for problems with current Shockwave Flash plugin versions and try this:
*disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
*disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Troubleshooting

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