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Post subject: Black screen appears randomly
 Posted: May 22, 2008 - 09:45 PM
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A black screen appeared after I worked with the console and synaptic and again when I had my external disk open, Gaim and iceweasel open.
The starts gets black with a fuzzy bar and colours on the upper side of the monitor and then it gets completely black.
I tried ctrl+alt+backspace and nothing happens.
This is a very serious thing. I had to shutdown my laptop twice.
Has anyone gone through this? |
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Post subject: RE: Black screen appears randomly
Posted: May 22, 2008 - 11:34 PM
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It's a known problem of new intel drivers: http://bugs.parsix.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126
Parsix is not the only distro affected. I recently updated intel drivers to 2.3.1, it's more stable than older 2.2.x based ones but still I face crashes sometimes. I'm still working to find a workaround. |
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Posted: May 23, 2008 - 12:25 AM
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Ok, thank you. This can be very inconvenient.
Thank you very much. |
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Posted: May 23, 2008 - 02:12 AM
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Please edit X.Org config file:
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vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf
in the "Device" section, Add the following line:
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Option "DRI" "false"
And comment out the following lines:
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#Option "RenderAccel" "1"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
#Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
This disables 3D capabilities but makes X more stable. Please test and report me the result. Thanks. |
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Posted: May 23, 2008 - 09:43 AM
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This is the output (only copied the device section):
This options were already #
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Section "Device"
#Option "RenderAccel" "1"
#Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
#Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
#Option "sw_cursor"
#Option "hw_cursor"
#Option "NoAccel"
#Option "ShowCache"
#Option "ShadowFB"
#Option "UseFBDev"
#Option "Rotate"
Identifier "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by PARSIX mkxf86config
Driver "intel"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
The bold text was the only reference that I found of DRI... |
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Posted: May 23, 2008 - 05:15 PM
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In Viola-TEST-2, those three lines are commented out, but not in TEST-1, I mentioned to be sure. In my case, adding
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Option "DRI" "false" "
made things worst! X crashes on video playback too! |
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rfpa
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Posted: May 23, 2008 - 08:33 PM
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| I had just another crash. All I did was start Firestarter. This is very very inconvenient. :/ |
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Posted: May 23, 2008 - 09:05 PM
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And another crash.  |
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alan
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Posted: May 24, 2008 - 02:18 AM
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It's also possible to revert back to i810 driver instead of intel driver. Its mature and stable enough.
Update: Please switch back to XXA, instead of EXA new acceleration method to see if it helps. Add the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf device section:
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Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
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Posted: May 24, 2008 - 09:39 AM
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I installed the xserver-xorg-video-i810 and kept the xserver-xorg-video-intel. Well, I had too, because synaptic forced me to.
I also added this line
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Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
As a newbie I can't be much of a help but I would suggest that a stable version should be used instead of a problematic one.
Thanks for the help.  |
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Post subject: Black screen appears randomly (Updated Driver)
Posted: May 26, 2008 - 03:44 AM
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rfpa,
Would you please all changes you have been made to the configuration file and use the updated xserver-xorg-video-intel driver made available yesterday? Please help me to test its stability status. Thanks. |
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Posted: May 26, 2008 - 04:17 AM
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| alan, I just added this option
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Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
and installed the i810 driver. I checked the Linux Mint Gnome installed drivers and they have both (i810 and xorg driver intel).
Nothing happened ever since. |
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Posted: May 26, 2008 - 06:24 AM
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| i810 driver package is dummy. xserver-xorg-video-intel package contains both i810 and intel drivers. You config is OK. Keep that XAA option and use intel instead of i810 in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file device section. Thank you. |
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