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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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Why does the arrow on Hillary signs point to the right? |
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