Hey, I had this not too long ago too. In my case it's a Voodoo card, and
I had recently run Quake3 and had vmware running. I just thought it was
some weird interaction with the various card drivers. I had to reboot too
to recover.
Stew Benedict
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have 7.1 with 3.3.6 on an Nvidia card.. here's the problem which occured
> just now:
>
> I move the mouse and X goes black.. comes up again immediately.. again I
> move my mouse it goes black for a second.. and so on.. I managed to logout,
> restart X but dosn't help.. so then i just rebooted and its fine now.. I
> hated the idea of rebooting but couldn't find a better solution (tried init
> 3 then init 5 .. didn't help).
>
> Last time when this happened with me was arond 2 months back.. that time I
> had figured that i don't have any free space in "/".. this time there was 4
> MB free in /.. then i removed gnome-games rpm and had 15Mb free.. but even
> that helped.
>
> Now its fine.. but any idea why this happens??\
>
> thanks
> sarang
>
>
