Screen sometimes goes black during Xscreensaver

Hi here is my strange problem. Generally the xscreensaver is running very well on may laptop. But sometimes the screen turns black(it is not off, as I can see the "background light") and I could never turn it back. I have tried the Fn keys, switching to console terminal but nothing happened. I gues

Re: Screen sometimes goes black during Xscreensaver

On 14/07/05, Kevin Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi here is my strange problem. Generally the xscreensaver is running > very well on may laptop. But sometimes the screen turns black(it is > not off, as I can see the "background light") and I could never turn > it back. I have tried the Fn keys,

Re: memory stick

s. keeling wrote: > Colin Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 7/12/05, Steffen Waldherr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > If this doesn't work, you might >> > want to try "fdisk /dev/sda" to see the partition >> > table of the stick and maybe repartition and/or >> > reformat it to your needs. >

Re: memory stick

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:16:43PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > > Colin Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 7/12/05, Steffen Waldherr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > If this doesn't work, you might > >> > want to try "fdisk /dev/sda" to see the partition > >> > ta

Re: memory stick

> For what it's worth, I have run ``mkfs -t vfat'' on a memory stick once, > after it had accumulated some weird and (as far as I recall) undeletable > files (due to a sequence of events involving unplugging without dismounting, > Windows or Macintosh system freezes, and other things). The stick ha

Re: memory stick

Colin Cotter wrote: > Is the consensus that I need to reformat the stick then? I'm a bit > nervous about this because of the "paperweight" rumours, also this > seems like a strange solution as the stick works fine with Windows, > also it worked on my colleague's RedHat machine. It is a fairly > sta

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Hi all been fiddling a little since the original post. i did try the xorg packages suggested - unfortunately no change. i also noticed some other funnies with xorg (at least the packages i downloaded - later said to be dated and buggy). in any case, i've been scared off the xorg packages, probab

Re: memory stick

Juraj Ziegler wrote: > Colin Cotter wrote: >> Is the consensus that I need to reformat the stick then? I'm a bit >> nervous about this because of the "paperweight" rumours, also this >> seems like a strange solution as the stick works fine with Windows, >> also it worked on my colleague's RedHat m

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