Hello. I have woody + kernel 2.4.0-test7 running on a Pentium III for some time, and everything was ok until some days ago, when I got some strange problem with X.
It suddenly begins to blank the screen (actually, there's a slight flash, as if the monitor got into sleep mode or something) -- but this is when I'm working. Typing or moving the mouse brings everything back, but 2 or 3 seconds later it goes dark again. It eventually stops if I try to minimize and bring back windows, use a console, etc, but I couldn't determine exactly what makes it work properly again. And I also didn't notice what triggers the problem... I tried this with X 4.0.1 and with 3.3.6, and the same problem happened. Also tried different kernels -- 2.4.0-test7 and 2.4.0-test[3,4,5] (didn't try the 2.2.X yes, but I will). I don't think it's the kernel or X, I believe it's some of the packages that were upgraded recently in woody... Did anyone else have this problem? I'm not using gdm, and I also tried stopping gpm, disabling ACPI in the kernel and BIOS, disbling/enabling APM in the BIOS... Didn't help. Any ideas? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
