Screen Goes Black

[Brandon Petersen]

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

[Trond Danielsen]

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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.

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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[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.
>  
>  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
>  |
>  |
>  - --
>  Trond Danielsen
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[Dave Goldblatt]

Brandon Petersen wrote:

> I am using the onboard Video Card which is an Intel 810 chipset.  
>   
>  
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119705

Disable the screensaver (or have it just blank the display).

-dg-