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On 08/25/2016 12:52 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2016-08-22, Adam Carter wrote: |
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>>> Once or twice per week, when I start X11 (via the startx program), |
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>>> my display goes all black. When it happens there is no way back to |
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>>> a working state: I can see that Xorg is running, I can exit it by |
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>>> hitting Ctl-Alt-Backspace, but even then display does not recover. |
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>>> The only thing I can do is hit Ctl-Alt-Del blindly and reboot, and |
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>>> next time it usually works. |
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>> Have you checked dmesg and syslogs for messages? |
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> Yes. Nothing (significantly) different when this happens. |
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>> Try a newer kernel and see if it goes away. |
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> I'm reluctant to go there before nailing it down a bit more, since |
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> it only happens intermittently and a newer kernel will quite possibly |
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> introduce other problems. |
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I don't remember if you specified your appended command-line kernel |
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parameters ( lilo / grub / grub2 ). I have an AMD Phenom II x4 980. The |
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parameters have a major effect on the video ( i.e. AGP / IOMMU usage ). |
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