[kde-linux] Black screen in KDE 4

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2010-01-02, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
> First of all, I wish a Happy New Year to all of you.
> 
> A few days ago, I installed SuSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3.1-2.4.
> After some work, the screen became black, and shutting down and
> restarting /usr/bin/xdm did not help. So, the only possibility to
> obtain a visible screen again is reinstalling SuSE 11.2. This night
> I did that, but after about 14 hours, the screen got black again.
> 
> Having two users, I found out an interesting detail: If the screen has
> become black for one user, it becomes black for the other user, too.

Intel Graphics card and a kernel older than 2.6. 31?

I had the same or a similar problem with an Intel 945GM and a 2.6.28 kernel.
After a while I saw extremly short and rare "twiching" and after a couple of 
those the screen went black.

Switching to a virtual console trough, e.g. CTRL+ALT+F1 still works and there 
is output there, just not any GUI anymore.

shutdown + restart helped for a while again.

Problem got fixed when I updated to an 2.6.31 kernel (might already work with 
any version inbetween, those are the two I have tested with).

I can still reproduce this reliably when booting the old kernel, so it most is 
a problem of that kernel's intel driver.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 190 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-linux/attachments/20100102/9f05eada/attachment.sig>