screen flashing to black every several seconds
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Fri Apr 1 09:23:39 UTC 2005
David Curry wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
>
>> For no explainable reason, my graphic interface has gone crazy. It
>> flashes to black for a moment everal several seconds. Nothing else
>> seems to be affected. If I'm typing, words keep getting put in the
>> doc. Downloads continue, etc... I loaded some of the latest
>> patches/updates last night. Apart from that this machine was idle all
>> day. It's up on the net with Firestarter providing pretty strict
>> rules. I just tried downloading/installing the latest ATI Radeon 9200
>> video driver from ATI. I searched the list for similar behavior, but
>> couldn't find anything. What could have changed in my absence??? Have
>> I been hacked by someone?
>>
> Claude, have you tried switching to a console window to see if the
> periodic flash to black occurs there as well? Try ALT-F2 to see if
> the blackout continues and then ALT-F& to switch back to your X window.
>
> Have you recently applied X.org updates to your system?
>
Console is stable. X.org was updated by yum update two nights ago.
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
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