From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I just installed RedHat 9 and found that it does a similar thing that bug 50004 was about. When you log off or reboot the screen just fades to white. I am running RH9 on my Dell C800 laptop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Click logoff 2.Select reboot or log off 3.Hit OK. Actual Results: The screen fades to white. Expected Results: the system should reboot or bring you back to the login screen Additional info: I have run into the same issue as bug 50004.
I have dug deeper and it seems to only happen with Gnome. KDE works just fine. Thanks Joe
I have had this white screen happen to me when I log out of my computer. I have a Pentium 3 & ASUS board. I can still log in. I can also select the options/buttons on the bottom left of the screen even though I cannot see them.
I just reported the same problem with my c800 laptop.
*** Bug 89299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
XFree86 4.3.0-5 or later in rawhide has some fixes for similar problems to this one and may likely resolve this issue as well. Changing status to RAWHIDE
Created attachment 91336 [details] log file attached
Just updated to 4.3.0-6 and logged out and back in. After logging in did a ctl-alt-f1 and bingo--white screen of death locks up whole machine. I noticed before that while in kde the ctl-alt-backspace relaunches X. This does not work for me in Gnome so I am wondering if the earlier comment about kde working but gnome does not provides a clue as to where to look for this problem. Just a thought.
I am still getting the white screen of death randomly when logging out. It is begining to be more annoying than the blue screen of death in windows. I will attach attach the log file and config file. Someone surely can figure ddcprobe out--after all ms did.
Created attachment 91441 [details] config file
Created attachment 91442 [details] log file
Also, I still cannot get 24 bit color, only 16 bit. The screen does some sort of wrap when trying if you select 24 bit and is not readable.
Created attachment 91449 [details] does this code help