Screen Goes Black

[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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