Screen Goes Black

[Brandon Petersen]

I am using the onboard Video Card which is an Intel 810 chipset.  

Brandon Petersen

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:32, Trond Danielsen wrote:
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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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