Display goes black with Verticle Lines top half of screen

**pricetech** · September 5th, 2010

I've searched the forums and found the same problem, but the solutions don't work for me since I don't seem to have an "xorg.conf" file.

Gateway SB400a computer with Edubuntu Lucid installed. The problem first cropped up when I installed the Edubuntu packages on Ubuntu. I did a fresh install with Edubuntu and the problem persists. I don't want to go back to Ubuntu since this computer is for my Grandkids and I want to the Edubuntu stuff for them.

I don't have the specs handy, but I can get them. I'll just need some help remembering what I have to do to get them. (it happens when you get old)

EDIT: From my xorg.0.log: (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:2562:107b:4000 Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device rev 3, Mem @ 0xf0000000/134217728, 0xffa80000/524288

Any help appreciated.

**pricetech** · September 7th, 2010

Bump

**pricetech** · September 8th, 2010

Bump and more information.

Ctrl Alt F1 doesn't help. I did not try F2 and beyond.

Connecting remotely with NX Client works just fine. Putty (I'm on a windows box) also connects, which is how I did a proper reboot.

It comes back up okay. When it will freak out again is anybody's guess.

**pricetech** · September 15th, 2010

Bump again in hopes I can get some input.

**pricetech** · September 30th, 2010

bump and a little more information:

Enabled Ctrl Alt Backspace. Doesn't help. I still have to shutdown.

**pricetech** · December 6th, 2010

Update:

Grandkids weren't using the Edubuntu stuff anyway so I wiped and went back to Ubuntu. Problem still occurs.

Something I've tried: It never malfunctions when I am logged in so I created another account with administrative privileges which the kids are to use to see if it malfunctions for them. If not, then the user account has to have access to something. I'll sort out what that something is if this works.

Meanwhile, if anybody has any ideas, please pass them along.

**jimmybarcelona** · December 12th, 2010

Any luck with this? I have this same problem with Ubuntu 10.04 on 3 different desktops. I need to get this fixed. I can find no real pattern as to when it happens. I know that xubuntu 10.04 did it as well.

**pricetech** · December 14th, 2010

No luck at all. Adding the account made no difference.

I finally put a different video card in it. (a scrounged nvidia) So far it hasn't acted up.

My searches for solutions gave me lots of information, but nothing that applied in my case. Best I could tell it's because it referred to earlier releases.

**jimmybarcelona** · December 16th, 2010

Have you tried upgrading to 10.10? I did that, and it's too soon to tell, but I've noticed that I haven't had this problem on the few computers I have running 10.10. So I upgraded the 10.04 machines, and so far I haven't had this problem since. Internet research has made me suspect heat issues that Maverick seems to do better with.