Ahh.. The growing pains of Linux, I guess.
Roman
Charles A Edwards wrote:
>
> Roman
> The same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago and I still do not know
> what caused it and also like you I re-installed.
>
> Charles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 8:06 AM
> Subject: [newbie] The Deadly Black Screen at KDE
>
> > Does any one know why the screen goes completely black with sporadic
> > flashes just before KDE was to start up? Here's' what happened:
> >
> > 1. I was emailing friend in this morning while in Windows NT4 using
> > Netscape
> > 2. After sending the email, I logged out of Netscape
> > 3. While in Windows NT4 SP5, I selected Start->Shutdown and Restart
> > Computer
> > 4. My computer rebooted to lilo and after 5 seconds went to begin
> > loading Linux Mandrake
> > 5. When it came to the time where KDE was to start up, the screen went
> > black with sporadic flashes of color. I could only use CNTRL-ALT-DEL(I'm
> > familiar with the 3 keys) to stop this, so I reinstalled.
> >
> > Was that wrong?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Roman
> > (Learning is a never ending process)
> >
> >
