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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> That's (S)creen (O)f (D)eath. I thought I had fixed this problem on my |
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> eee. I would get these SODs, black usually, but sometimes white and |
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> once green while connected to the web(don't know if that's |
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> significant). At first I thought it was the browser, so I tried |
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> firefox-3.0, firefox-3.5, opera-10. Same story, so I replaced xfce4 |
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> with fluxbox, no screen savers, no icons, widgets, just the default |
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> bar at the bottom of the screen and there was no problem for several |
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> days until this morning the desktop went totally black and wouldn't |
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> respond to mouse or keyboard. |
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> I did #tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log immediately from a spare console but |
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> there was no sign of trouble. |
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> |
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> I can get back to the start console, ctl-c and run startx again but |
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> the desktop remains black. To get back the desktop I have to reboot. |
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> Anybody guess what's happening here? |
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> Maxim |
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From the sound of it, that'd be X itself (less likely because |
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restarting X should resolve any direct X issues), a video driver |
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(which doesn't, to my knowledge, get completely unloaded on closing |
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X), or hardware issue. Since it doesn't mess with plain console, which |
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is rendered through a different driver than X video, I'd guess that |
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it's not hardware (I'd expect video corruption to persist through VT |
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switching with a hardware issue). Still, could be any of the three, or |
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something else entirely, but by the sound of it, try changing version |
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on your video driver. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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