Re: Problem: Blank screen in X after heavy disk access (2.4 only)

[Nathan Thompson]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote:
> This action causes my screen to go blank in X and remain blank
> unless I move the mouse or type on the keyboard.  The second I stop doing
> one of these activities, it goes blank again.  While it is blank, it seems
> to be flashing every second, as if it is recieving blank screen commands
> repeatedly.  This behavior continues until I restart the machine.  If I
> switch to a console, everything is fine.  If I restart the X server, the
> behavior continues.

Is this a VIA chipset based motherboard?

If so someone (Vojtech Pavlik ?) has a patch that helps this... 
It is a hardware error.

For what it's worth I have seen this exact same behavior on my machine
in 2.2.x.

I have an abit ka7 motherboard, via kx133 chipset.

Nate

> thanks,
> 
> Rodney M. Jokerst