I re-tried my install of FC 3.92. This time I chose "1024X768 - Thousands Of Colours" rather than "1024X768 - Millions Of Colours" as I did the pervious time when the screen went blank. This time round, the screen behaved itself. Chandana On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 19:07 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > Chandana De Silva wrote: > > Sorry I could not reply earlier. I set the resolution to 1024x768@16 and > > the hit ok, when the screen went blank. I am attaching xorg.conf for > > your information. > > > > I was able to get a blank screen once when I tried FC4T2 version of X at > 1280x1024@24 when launching ppcracer. The problem did not show at > 1024x768@16 and ppcracer did not reveal any defects with X, other than > the blue border in the virtual terminals. > > I did not use noaccel as an option during the tests. > > To get the blank screen, launch ppcracer, then escape to get out of the > program. Notice unresponsiveness and switch to a virtual terminal. > Notice the blue border around the visible text. > Once you are back to the GUI (screen 7), notice the blank screen. to > exit the GUI (runlevel 3), hit ctl-alt-backspace. Once the server is > destroyed, launch X again. X comes back up normally. > > Ppcracer was not as unresponsive during the relaunch of X and I did not > change to a virtual terminal. There might be a problem with the driver > now blanking, but it is not 100% reproducable during the tests that I did. > > Are there any other users of FC4T3 having similar blank screens? > > Jim >