blue screen of death after logout

[Bill Davidsen]

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an HP DC7700 with an ADD2/DVI card driving a 1600x1200 NEC 
> Multisync monitor, using the stock Fedora 9 intel driver.
> 
> Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen 
> goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X will 
> not run properly after hitting Ctrl+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Restarting 
> the computer is the only solution for clearing the blue screen in X.
> 
> I haven't found any useful log messages. It is an erratic problem.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? It's really annoying!

By any chance is your keyboard (or mouse) connected in some interesting 
way? Like wireless, through KVM switch, USB, or anything else other than 
PS/2 cable? I have seen somewhat similar problems with input static. And 
see below...
> 
> Swapping ADD2 cards made no difference. Swapping monitors made no 
> difference. Swapping the computer made no difference. i386 vs x86_64 
> made no difference.

If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. 
Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets 
wedged. Next time you see it try power cycling the monitor, even 
shutting down and pulling the plug to force a reboot might be needed.
> 
> Installing xorg* from rawhide didn't work at all, too raw I guess...

May be a configuration option in the build from source.
> 
> 
> - Mike
> 


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