On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 12:50:04 PM UTC-8, JMB wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having a problem over the last couple months or so. > Periodically, something will happen and I will not be able to suspend or > hibernate my machine, and it's always accompanied with an inability to > play video (any attempts to play video - with vlc or mpv - ends up in > crashing or just black screens). I initially thought this had something > to do with an hourly TRIM script I was running, so I deleted it, but the > same issues occurred this morning. The symptoms are always cured by > simply restarting the machine but the sickness always comes back within > a few days or so. I have no idea what's causing this so if I can't find > out anything fruitful, the only solution I have so far is to simply > change or re-install my OS. > > Some information on my machine: > Thinkpad T420 > Linux kernel: 3.2.0-4-686-pae > Debian version: Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux > > If you need any more information just ask and I'll try to provide it. > Any advice or suggestions is much appreciated. Thank you. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2bdb37970e40758d03d6ab3cd6cb...@airmail.cc
This sound like a video card (driver) issue to me. Are you able to SSH into the machine after you get a black screen? Alternatively, have you checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/337fbabc-9dde-4520-8e6f-87490f863...@googlegroups.com
