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SomeGuyDude

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 271

Periodic snaps to a black screen lately.

I think this started after the last kernel upgrade (but I'm not positive). All I know is in the last week, my machine will randomly snap to a black screen from whence there is no return. It's not off, just black. I can't exit X and get to my command prompt or anything, I just have to do a hard restart and hope I didn't lose too much work (hooray for auto-recovery).

Actually, auto-recovery is another odd thing. After I restart once things go black, MPD will be right back where it was when I started up LAST time, and OpenOffice recovers my document in the same place it was the last time I started, nothing new that happened during the session that crashed.

Is there a log that I can check to report more details?

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And in the midst of such perfection,
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SomeGuyDude

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 271

Re: Periodic snaps to a black screen lately.

Bump and a bit more info: sometimes I -do- go back to the command line, as though I got randomly logged out. It seems to happen once in a while when I sign in and right-click to bring up the OB menu. There's no real pattern as to which one I get, although it SEEMS like if it happens within about 20 seconds of starting X it'll just be X going off, but if I'm in for a while it'll go to pure black.

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And in the midst of such perfection,
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jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 248

Re: Periodic snaps to a black screen lately.

My x turns black too, but it returns to normal after a few seconds.
I'm using nvidia, didn't test any other drivers.

Last edited by jordz (2008-11-05 17:13:18)

mentallaxative

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 134

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Re: Periodic snaps to a black screen lately.

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

hrobeers

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 79

Re: Periodic snaps to a black screen lately.

I had this a while ago too.

I removed xorg-server from /var/cache/pacman/pkg, reinstalled it and it was over.
I hope this helps