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unohu62

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Registered: 2010-08-29

Posts: 8

Screen goes black when trying to play agame over open a movie

Whenever I try and open an .avi or play a simple game like abe or run dosbox for example my screen on my laptop goes noticably darker and will not correct itself until I reboot.

I have an old Compac Evo N400c laptop P3 800mhz, 256 m ram running openbox running latest kernel and updates. Is there something in laptop-mode or xscreensaver that I can correct?

Anyone else having this problem when trying to run multimedia?

Regards,
Robert

unohu62

Member

Registered: 2010-08-29

Posts: 8

Re: Screen goes black when trying to play agame over open a movie

update to last post. I opened up an .avi file in smplayer and it works fine, but play it in mplayer and it darkens the screen. Perhaps a framebuffer issue? Hmmmmmmmmmm!