[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?
> > > 
> > 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
> 
> Are you current with all the latest updates?
> 
>  - BS
>Best answer I can give is:I only loaded this up on my
maching about 2 weeks ago.  If I remember at the time,
Yast went out and brought me up to date.  Since then,
periodically I get a msg. that the system "can't check
for updates" but that didn't seem as important to
address as having to work or shut the computer off.
When I bring up the SuSE link from the browser, it
seems want to take every place but any updates. 
Perhaps I'm not going to the right place but what
could this have to do with my problem?
Brock
 
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