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tiggsy
November 16th, 2015, 08:15 PM
This is an ongoing problem and extremely annoying. It happens with some videos every time, with others you can restart the computer and play them fine.

You are watching a video on Chrome or Firefox, when suddenly the screen goes almost completely blank except for what looks like the top half of 10 or 20 heiroglyphs at the top of the screen. The sound keeps on playing. You have to restart the computer because you can't do anything when it goes like this.

It's running the 64-bit version of 14.04.

TheFu
November 17th, 2015, 07:07 PM
Try running these cmds before starting videos:

xset s off &
xset -dpms &
Then

xset s on &
xset +dpms &

When done.

BTW, you can probably ssh in from another box and kill the screensaver or X. It is just the GUI having issues,not the whole OS.