On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Oddball
As i now left the newly configured desktop alone, to write and read mail, on another machine, and making some food. Returning after about 15-20 minutes, i found the desktop in a black screen. Moving mouse, or hitting 'shift' on the keyboard established nothing... I had to 'reset' with the button....
Is this known, or could it be realated to only 512MB ram? (Swap 750MB), or a vga-card: ATI RV250 lf, with only 64mb video-ram on it?
First, if you have a caps-lock led or other identifier, try turning caps-lock on and off. If it switches on and off, the box is not locked, only X is totally black (including the cursor - which is not usually the case). In that case, try control-alt-backspace, twice. control-alt-backspace, not control-alt-delete. that should kill X and restart it. Another thing to try would be control-alt-f2 (or f3, f4, f5, f6) to go to a text console. If that works, you can log in and see if you can figure out what might be wrong, and ultimately switch back to X (alt-f7) and reset it (as above). I have this problem a *lot* on my laptop with KDE4 and desktop effects (compositing), using the NVidia drivers, but I have a cursor. in my case it is a bug in (probably) KDE4 or the NVidia drivers. Yours may be a different issue. Consider turning off desktop effects (if you have them enabled) and see if the problem comes back. Just some things to consider. -- Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org