poisonbl at gmail
Nov 13, 2009, 10:50 PM
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> That's (S)creen (O)f (D)eath. I thought I had fixed this problem on my
> eee. I would get these SODs, black usually, but sometimes white and
> once green while connected to the web(don't know if that's
> significant). At first I thought it was the browser, so I tried
> firefox-3.0, firefox-3.5, opera-10. Same story, so I replaced xfce4
> with fluxbox, no screen savers, no icons, widgets, just the default
> bar at the bottom of the screen and there was no problem for several
> days until this morning the desktop went totally black and wouldn't
> respond to mouse or keyboard.
>
> I did #tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log immediately from a spare console but
> there was no sign of trouble.
>
> I can get back to the start console, ctl-c and run startx again but
> the desktop remains black. To get back the desktop I have to reboot.
>
> Anybody guess what's happening here?
>
> Maxim
From the sound of it, that'd be X itself (less likely because
restarting X should resolve any direct X issues), a video driver
(which doesn't, to my knowledge, get completely unloaded on closing
X), or hardware issue. Since it doesn't mess with plain console, which
is rendered through a different driver than X video, I'd guess that
it's not hardware (I'd expect video corruption to persist through VT
switching with a hardware issue). Still, could be any of the three, or
something else entirely, but by the sound of it, try changing version
on your video driver.
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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy
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