My previous laptop was made by Acer with Intel 830-M chipset.
I just downloaded and installed Intel rpm driver from the Intel's web site and
it worked perfectly.
Search Intel web site: it could be there. Details of your video adapter could be
found from lspci.
Thanks,
Alex
Quoting John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>:
> Jon Peatfield wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Vrijaldenhoven, Serge wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I installed SL5 on a Latitude C-400. When I switch from GUI to a
> >> virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) and then back to GUI (Ctrl-Alt-F7)
> >> my system completely locks up: screen gets black and no keystrike has
> >> any effect. The only thing I can do then, is reboot. Is anybody
> >> experiencing the same problem and is there a solution for this?
> >
> > Oddly enough we have a machine where quite the oposite applies, ie one
> > *must* change vt to avoid problems...
> >
> > In our case the problem is with the driver for the onboard Intel 845
> > graphics -- if the X server has powered the monitor down (DPMS) when one
> > restarts it (with either gdm-restart or gdm-safe-restart), it leaves the
> > video card in a confused state and you never get any output. Using chvt
> > to switch vt's has the side-effect of getting the X server to wake up
> > the monitor and then a restart is ok.
> >
> > I've never liked Intel onboard graphics chipsets and this just further
> > makes me glad we have so few machines using them...
> >
> >> Possibly related?:
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/beryl-core/+bug/107034
> >> [log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]
> >
> > Those appear to be describing problems with 'beryl' or 'Desktop Effects'
> > (whatever those are). If you have such things enabled does turning them
> > off help?
> >
> > What graphics hardware does your C400 have? Which xorg driver is being
> > used? Can you check if the system is still accessible over a network
> > when it seems to have frozen at the console?
> >
> > We have some machines with particular ATI chipsets which older versions
> > of X radeon driver dislike and freeze the system solid when some
> > operations happen. Our problems *seem* to be fixed in the xorg in SL5
> > but in earlier systems (XFree86 in SL3 and xorg in SL4) we had to use
> > the SVGA driver to avoid the lock-ups.
> >
>
>
> I agree on Intel graphics. I had a Dell GX270 on which I installed RHEL5
> Beta{WS,SERVER}, SLES10, OpenSUSE10 and (I think) Debian. Oh, Fedora
> Core 6 too. None had the graphics "just work," and I didn't really get
> it working properly.
>
> FC6 was completely unacceptable with a graphics display reminiscent of
> my EGA screen's RAM being overwritten back in Good Old DOS on TTY[1-12]
> (I push X to tty13). This happened after using X.
>
> Mostly, "modprobe intelfb" and some more magic got a working, acceptable
> framebuffer virtual console, but it was always a bit rough.
>
> That's running Debian and pretending to be a server (no X) at school now
> and I have an IBM ThinkCentre. Also intel graphics, but this one seems
> to behave a little better - maybe practice makes perfect, maybe IBM does
> it better than Dell.
>
> Your problem may be similar to what I experienced with FC6: in my case I
> got a bad display, in yours it seems to freeze,
>
> While you say, "no keystrike has any effect," you don't explicitly
> mention those keys, such as num-lock, that toggle lights.
>
>
> If this is a work machine, I'd try to negotiate a swap for something
> that does work;-) I've had other problems like yours, I don't recall
> actually fixing any of them;-(
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> -- spambait
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