Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:01:20 -0600 (CST) | From | "Rodney M. Jokerst" <> | Subject | Re: Problem: Blank screen in X after heavy disk access (2.4 only) |
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Yes, I have the same motherboard / chipset. Thanks for your help!
Rodney M. Jokerst
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Nathan Thompson wrote:
> 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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