On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 19:53, patrick keshishian wrote: > Hi, > > Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 > snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, > the screen went, what I can best describe as "fuzzy". So I did the > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the > xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root > window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the > display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what > to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more > Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad > and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only > solution.
Does this happen if you exit X normally? Sounds like the same problem that affects lots of newer machines.