[Novices] Black screen of death

[Bruce Smith]

> Running SuSE 9.1.  Getting complete screen lockup
> under two conditions.
> 1	When I go to the dialog box where you change your
> screen saver.  As soon as I go to that "box", the
> whole screen locks up.
> 2	When the screen times out in its power saving
> whatever, the screen cannot be retreived by moving the
> mouse, hitting keys or Cntl, Alt, return.
> Have to reboot to restart
> This started right after I changed my screen saver. 
> How do I fix.

Are you using KDE or Gnome?

Please define "lockup".  Does the mouse most move at all?
Does the caps-lock or num-lock light toggle when you press those keys?

If you hold down CTRL and ALT and press BACKSPACE when it's locked up,
does that do anything?

 - BS