Re: Black Screen of Death

2012-11-19 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 19 November 2012 14:09:30 Neal Murphy wrote: > Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building > its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second > one. > > This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. > > I

Black Screen of Death

2012-11-19 Thread Neal Murphy
Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second one. This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I last saw similar problems some years back when I had hardware troubl

Re: Black screen of death

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Ron Savage wrote: > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Nope, as I explained. But thanx for replying. > > The real answer is in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/% > gconf.xml. > -- you didn't mention gnome vs kde.. I don't have a ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default but I do

Re: Black screen of death

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Savage
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:45 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: Hi Paul > /etc/X11/xorg.conf Nope, as I explained. But thanx for replying. The real answer is in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/% gconf.xml. -- Ron Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://savage.net.au/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Black screen of death

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Ron Savage wrote: > I cannot see how to recover the default resolution. I couldn't find a > file on the system with a modification time of when this happened, so > the question is: Where is the current screen mode stored? And no, I > don't mean the list of possible screen m

Black screen of death

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Savage
Hi folks This is etch 2.6.18 on a Dell Latitude C400 laptop. Note: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg is not the solution to my problem. That determines the list of possible resolutions, not the currently selected resolution. I was fighting a bug with the panel (Panel Properties/Expand [ ] shrin

Re: black screen of death

2002-04-03 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 08:27, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I am running woody + sawfish-gnome. Sometimes, after xscreensaver has started > and the monitor enters the suspend mode it never comes back again. No matter > I > do, the screen remains black and insensible to any mouse or key

Re: black screen of death

2002-04-03 Thread ktb
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:27:00AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I am running woody + sawfish-gnome. Sometimes, after xscreensaver has started > and the monitor enters the suspend mode it never comes back again. No matter > I > do, the screen remains black and insensible to any

black screen of death

2002-04-03 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I am running woody + sawfish-gnome. Sometimes, after xscreensaver has started and the monitor enters the suspend mode it never comes back again. No matter I do, the screen remains black and insensible to any mouse or keyboard input. The solution is to reset the machine. Did anyone face