[Novices] Black screen of death

[Brock Inglehart]

--- Bruce Smith <bruce at armintl.com> wrote:

> > 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
>I am running KDE.  In the first condition, the mouse
locks up as soon as I bring up that screen, no matter
where the curser is on the screen.  When the screen is
black, who knows.  CTRL,ALT, BACKSPACE does nothing.
Esc. does nothing. Enter does nothing.  When the
screen is locked up, neither CAPS LOCK or NUM LOCK
toggle the light.
Brock
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