screen flashing to black every several seconds

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Fri Apr 1 06:02:12 UTC 2005


Claude Jones wrote:

> For no explainable reason, my graphic interface has gone crazy. It 
> flashes to black for a moment everal several seconds. Nothing else 
> seems to be affected. If I'm typing, words keep getting put in the 
> doc. Downloads continue, etc... I loaded some of the latest 
> patches/updates last night. Apart from that this machine was idle all 
> day. It's up on the net with Firestarter providing pretty strict 
> rules. I just tried downloading/installing the latest ATI Radeon 9200 
> video driver from ATI. I searched the list for similar behavior, but 
> couldn't find anything. What could have changed in my absence??? Have 
> I been hacked by someone?
>
Claude, have you tried switching to a console window to see if the 
periodic flash to black occurs there as well?  Try ALT-F2 to see if the 
blackout continues and then ALT-F& to switch back to your X window.

Have you recently applied X.org updates to your system?




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