[Novices] Black screen of death

[John Bridleman]

* Brock Inglehart wrote:
> I'm not convinced its hardware.  It didn't do it the
> first week of my installation and it doesn't do it in
> "blue screen".
> What about doing a complete install?  

Now that's not the Linux way! ;-)

xscreensaver has always been a little flaky IMHO. (Apologies to Jamie Zawinski).

I'd try removing xscreensaver, deleting the .xscreensaver file and then reinstalling it.
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