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Originally Posted by rpa (Post 4080844)

Sorry ... I am not saying that changing setting with "gconf-editor" "fixed" the problem but it did seem to make things better. How I reached that conclusion will need to be described in a little more detail so kindly bear with me (!) -
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I think I may have mentioned this above, but it's my wife's desktop system that has the Intel graphics chip-set in it. She is currently running a Fedora 12 system. Yesterday the Fedora people issued several updates, including a minor kernel update.

We immediately (well, about 10 minutes after rebooting) noticed that, whenever the system attempted to save power or start a screen saver, the screen would go black and and the system would be "dead," responding to nothing except a "hard" power-off.

Anyhow, I've now disabled all power saving and screen-saver triggers, and she seems to be able to run with no problem. (By the way, she was running KDE under KDM, so - if this is a "solution" - it's not a GNOME one.)

Just to update everyone on my efforts to fix this issue: I have found none. I tried nearly every fix mentioned in thread, installed several different distros with modern kernels and xorg files -- all end in the same result. They work for a while, but finally crash or boot to a black screen every third or fourth boot. I did have Fedora running reasonably well (a crash on only one out of twenty reboots.) Then, a kernel upgrade during a security update started the whole thing again.

The solution I have found that looks the most promising is to just install a distro that is old enough to predate the new xorg (pre 1.7, I think).

I will try Ubuntu 9.10 as I have been told that this is the last distro that will work with this chipset without having to jump through hoops.

I will let everyone know the results.

Bob

By any chance, would it make a difference by setting "Driver" to "i810" in the "xorg.conf" file ?!
I noticed a line that effect while shutting down the GUI mode in the SystemRescue CD (this GUI mode is started by typing "wizard" at the command-line).
I have also read this suggestion in other threads about this problem of 845G graphics controller on the site.

Regards,

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Originally Posted by rpa (Post 4090042)

the i810 driver only exists in older distros with older xorgs. That is basically the whole problem.

This is worth a read just to know where you stand

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=ODU3Mg

Bob, thanks a lot!
I'm Zenwalk user. I have old motherboard with 82845g, and my screen always became black when I switched to the terminal or logged out. It was enough to add "i915.modeset=1" to my /etc/lilo.conf and change "vesa" to "intel" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and now works fine.
Again, thanks!