Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com 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. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD
Maxim Wexler wrote: Anybody guess what's happening here? Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it sounds like either a problem with the video driver or a hardware problem. :( Be lucky, Neil http://www.easy-ebay.com
Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD
On 11/14/09, Neil Walker n...@ep.mine.nu wrote: Maxim Wexler wrote: Anybody guess what's happening here? Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it sounds like either a problem with the video driver or a hardware problem. :( hmm, ran #emerge -pv xf86-intel-driver and it came back with [ebuild ud]. Portage wanted to downgrade 2.9.1 with 2.8.1, so I did. IIRC I upgraded to 2.9.1 to fix another video problem. Or, maybe it was the same one. I'll have to look over my history to be sure. Meanwhile, I'll wait and see; the problem was intermittant; sometimes the SOD appeared in a few minutes, sometimes it took days. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] return of SOD
Maxim Wexler wrote: Meanwhile, I'll wait and see; the problem was intermittant; sometimes the SOD appeared in a few minutes, sometimes it took days. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. :) Be lucky, Neil http://www.easy-ebay.com
[gentoo-user] return of SOD
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
