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
