Re: Screen Goes Black

[Brandon Petersen]

I am using the onboard Video Card which is an Intel 810 chipset.  

Brandon Petersen

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:32, Trond Danielsen wrote:
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>  Hi!
>  Could you give us some more specs of your hardware (read: videocard); I
>  had a similar problem on my dell inspiron 8100 when using nvidias driver
>  and kernel 2.6.3.
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>  Brandon Petersen wrote:
>  | I've installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2 onto a Dell Dimension 2100 (800Mhz
>  | Intel, 196mb Ram).  I've been testing things out, submitting bug
>  | reports.  But there is one thing I can't seem to figure out and submit a
>  | bug.
>  |
>  | Sometimes the screen goes black, and I cannot regain control of it.
>  | Ctrl-Backspace doesn't exit out of X, Ctrl-Alt-# doesn't bring me to a
>  | terminal.  It seems to happen randomly, could  possibly be from no
>  | activity, but I'm not sure.
>  |
>  | I can ssh into the box, but I'm not sure if there is anything I can do
>  | to determine what is going on with the X Server from an ssh session?
>  |
>  | Any suggestions on determining what is causing the lockout and blackout
>  | screen from ssh?
>  |
>  | Thanks
>  |
>  | Brandon Petersen
>  |
>  |
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>  Trond Danielsen
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