Re: screen goes black
On Saturday 16 December 2000 14:18, dude wrote:
> does the screen seem to fade away or blink out?
Suddenly blinks out. Then if I'm in X and I move the mouse then everywhere
the mouse moves gets drawn (the usual redraw under cursor thing). Then if I
select a window the title-bar gets re-drawn etc. I can drag a window around
the screen to get it all displaying again, or I can switch VTs and back again.
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:59:49 +0100
> > From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
> > To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: screen goes black
> > Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> >
> > I've recently started having a problem with my Thinkpad T20 where the
> > screen goes black. It will happen while I'm working at seemingly random
> > periods. Any new text or graphics that is displayed (in text mode or X)
> > will appear as normal, and changing VT's will result in all text being
> > correct.
> >
> > I have just recompiled my kernel (same version and options).
> >
> > It's kernel 2.4.0-test10.
> >
> > This problem occurs when X isn't running or when X is running.
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