Black screen of death
Σάββατο, 17 Ιούνιος 2006, 11:57It's been a while since I solved this in ubuntu. After starting Xorg, when pressing ALT-CTRL+F1-6 to change to a console, the screen was becoming blank black. There was no way to return to Xorg but CTRL-ALT-DEL was soft rebooting the system. This bug started somewhere between dapper upgrades in March, I expected it to be fixed with another upgrade until dapper made it to stable release.
The problem is a bug of i810 driver for Xorg (and maybe of some other drivers like mga). I had setup a clone screen for the vga output of my laptop and for that reason the following statement was in my xorg.conf:
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
Removing this statement fixed the problem. It seems that using the MonitorLayout option causes the problem no matter what I set it to. Mystirious are the ways of Xorg.