Re: Black Screen of Death

"Darren Salt" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4F1F99A098%news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for your response.

You reboot just because you've reconfigured X...?!

It happens if I reboot, run startx from a recovery kernel or restart X from
an X session with Ctl-Alt-Backspace after replacing the 'vesa' xorg.conf
with one citing 'ati'.

I get a totally black screen and a completely unresponsive system. The
keyboard is competely locked up. I've finagled a pile of 'Option'
statements into the 'Device' section -- no joy.

Exactly when does the lockup occur? If it's when X should start, one
possible
cause is AGP fast write being enabled in the BIOS configuration.

It occurs at the exact point that X should start. The BIOS for this
hardware has no option to enable or disable AGP fast write. In any case,
would that actually lock up the system altogether?


Jim McCauley


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