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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