Thread: My monitor went black in Linux/Debian (X) and text mode earlier today...
View Single Post
  #4  
Old May 22nd 06, 03:39 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Whoever
external usenet poster
  
Posts: n/a
Default My monitor went black in Linux/Debian (X) and text mode earliertoday...


On Sun, 21 May 2006, wrote:

About over an hour ago, I was watching a long video (FLV file; not fullscreen) for about 30 minutes in GMPlayer on
my Linux/Debian box (Linux foobar 2.6.14-2-k7 #1 Wed Dec 28 19:14:46 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux) while my
gaming/Windows box was doing SpinRite stuff (so far no errors, but I will resume overnight since it has 8 hours to

I suggest you read this:
http://www.grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm

and then think about how productive those hours spent doing "Spinrite
stuff" are.