screen flashing to black every several seconds

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Fri Apr 1 16:14:44 UTC 2005


Kam Leo wrote:

>On Mar 31, 2005 10:02 PM, David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Claude Jones wrote:
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>>>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?
>>>
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>>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.
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>>Have you recently applied X.org updates to your system?
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>Is this happening when you are typing in a terminal window?  If so, it
>is the bell setting for your terminal session.  Just click on Settings
>-> Bell and select another value.
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Interesting observation, Kam.  Thanks for the tidbit.  Does it apply to 
FC3 or FC2?




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