My previous laptop was made by Acer with Intel 830-M chipset. I just downloaded and installed Intel rpm driver from the Intel's web site and it worked perfectly.
Search Intel web site: it could be there. Details of your video adapter could be found from lspci. Thanks, Alex Quoting John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jon Peatfield wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Vrijaldenhoven, Serge wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I installed SL5 on a Latitude C-400. When I switch from GUI to a > >> virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) and then back to GUI (Ctrl-Alt-F7) > >> my system completely locks up: screen gets black and no keystrike has > >> any effect. The only thing I can do then, is reboot. Is anybody > >> experiencing the same problem and is there a solution for this? > > > > Oddly enough we have a machine where quite the oposite applies, ie one > > *must* change vt to avoid problems... > > > > In our case the problem is with the driver for the onboard Intel 845 > > graphics -- if the X server has powered the monitor down (DPMS) when one > > restarts it (with either gdm-restart or gdm-safe-restart), it leaves the > > video card in a confused state and you never get any output. Using chvt > > to switch vt's has the side-effect of getting the X server to wake up > > the monitor and then a restart is ok. > > > > I've never liked Intel onboard graphics chipsets and this just further > > makes me glad we have so few machines using them... > > > >> Possibly related?: > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/beryl-core/+bug/107034 > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg379749.html > > > > Those appear to be describing problems with 'beryl' or 'Desktop Effects' > > (whatever those are). If you have such things enabled does turning them > > off help? > > > > What graphics hardware does your C400 have? Which xorg driver is being > > used? Can you check if the system is still accessible over a network > > when it seems to have frozen at the console? > > > > We have some machines with particular ATI chipsets which older versions > > of X radeon driver dislike and freeze the system solid when some > > operations happen. Our problems *seem* to be fixed in the xorg in SL5 > > but in earlier systems (XFree86 in SL3 and xorg in SL4) we had to use > > the SVGA driver to avoid the lock-ups. > > > > > I agree on Intel graphics. I had a Dell GX270 on which I installed RHEL5 > Beta{WS,SERVER}, SLES10, OpenSUSE10 and (I think) Debian. Oh, Fedora > Core 6 too. None had the graphics "just work," and I didn't really get > it working properly. > > FC6 was completely unacceptable with a graphics display reminiscent of > my EGA screen's RAM being overwritten back in Good Old DOS on TTY[1-12] > (I push X to tty13). This happened after using X. > > Mostly, "modprobe intelfb" and some more magic got a working, acceptable > framebuffer virtual console, but it was always a bit rough. > > That's running Debian and pretending to be a server (no X) at school now > and I have an IBM ThinkCentre. Also intel graphics, but this one seems > to behave a little better - maybe practice makes perfect, maybe IBM does > it better than Dell. > > Your problem may be similar to what I experienced with FC6: in my case I > got a bad display, in yours it seems to freeze, > > While you say, "no keystrike has any effect," you don't explicitly > mention those keys, such as num-lock, that toggle lights. > > > If this is a work machine, I'd try to negotiate a swap for something > that does work;-) I've had other problems like yours, I don't recall > actually fixing any of them;-( > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please do not reply off-list >
