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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××.org> wrote: |
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> Once or twice per week, when I start X11 (via the startx program), my |
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> display goes all black. When it happens there is no way back to a |
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> working state: I can see that Xorg is running, I can exit it by hitting |
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> Ctl-Alt-Backspace, but even then display does not recover. The only |
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> thing I can do is hit Ctl-Alt-Del blindly and reboot, and next time it |
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> usually works. |
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> I did a diff of the Xorg logfile for successful and failed runs, and |
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> they are identical except for some trivial device renumbering. Clearly |
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> there is no segfault as in the other scenario recently discussed on the |
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> list. It is also not a monitor problem: turning monitor on & off |
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> doesn't help. |
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Have you checked dmesg and syslogs for messages? |
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Try a newer kernel and see if it goes away. |
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