Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:43:29 -0500 | Subject | Re: Problem: Blank screen in X after heavy disk access (2.4 only) | From | Nathan Thompson <> |
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote: > This action causes my screen to go blank in X and remain blank > unless I move the mouse or type on the keyboard. The second I stop doing > one of these activities, it goes blank again. While it is blank, it seems > to be flashing every second, as if it is recieving blank screen commands > repeatedly. This behavior continues until I restart the machine. If I > switch to a console, everything is fine. If I restart the X server, the > behavior continues.
Is this a VIA chipset based motherboard?
If so someone (Vojtech Pavlik ?) has a patch that helps this... It is a hardware error.
For what it's worth I have seen this exact same behavior on my machine in 2.2.x.
I have an abit ka7 motherboard, via kx133 chipset.
Nate
> thanks, > > Rodney M. Jokerst
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