I've posted on this before.
I was getting black screen freezes first on ubuntu, then on pclinuxos.
Sometimes stable for up to a day - sometimes crashed 3/4 times in a day.
The issue appears to be finally resolved - I just installed new Debian release
"squeeze" a couple of days back. No crashsince
I've posted a couple of times before...last time I was moving to PC Linux OS
Anyway, I've be using that for a while but had exactly the same issues there
i.e. random black-screen crashes
For me, I've always suspected the video-card/intel video drivers were
responsible.
One reason is that I could
Well - as mentioned earlier - I was having problems earlier with
random/sporadic "Black Screens".
Based on threads etc. I suspected problems with video drivers and intel
chiopset.
Anyhow I had reproducible test case (System > Admin > System Testing >
Video tests => Crash)
After trying out a lot
Cheers Bob, Good for you!
Obviously there is no problem then...we're all mad!
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:48 PM, BobMcD wrote:
> FYI - I've been able to achieve 12 days of uptime thus far. Same duty
> cycle, same hardware, same software, etc. 10.04 will automatic updates,
> default settings (be
I have a dell optiplex gx 260 desktop box with Pentium 4 chip.
Installed 10.04 - same issue - random black screen freezes.
It is purely random, **but I have a way to reproduce it.**
Run the:
System > Admin > System Tests>
Check only the Video Tests checkbox and run through the series of tests
Oops, correction to my previous comment:
wrong kernel versions mentioned
2.6.32-21 seems to be more stable than 2.6.32-23
(I has 22 instead of 32)
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People...please check to see if following steps reproduce it for you:
System > Admin > System Tests>
Check only the Video Tests checkbox and run through the series of tests.
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Well I bit the bullet and greetings from PCLinuxOS!
Was slightly tricky for me to install.cause I had a blackscreen of death
while installing. (does not bode well)
Successfully installed in VESA mode, and then found it tricky to set the
correct screen resolution...as I had 640 resolution and co
Thanks for the info, I think I might give that PCLinuxOS a shot also based
on your recommendationlooks fairly polished based on screenshots.
I tried going back to ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) which was more bearable and
although my "Black Screen" freezes have gone away, I still get an occasional
freeze
