Xorg problems

[Ulin the Tech Mage]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>         Two times now, after the monitor has been turned off an hour or 
> two, when it comes back up I have a dark screen with a good cursor that 
> moves as directed by the trackball. I have learned the fix is to use 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to drop out of X windows and then Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to X 
> wildows. Below are the last few entries in Xorg-log and dmesg. They do 
> not show me much.
>
> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
> (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
>
> [   52.372541] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.2 to 64
> [   52.695919] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54696 usecs
> [   52.695925] intel8x0: clocking to 46882
> [   56.004121] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> [   56.091162] Adding 1959920k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 
> across:1959920k
> [   56.678801] EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal
> [   57.474722] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> [   57.474965] EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
> [   57.474973] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> [   58.262158] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
>
>
> Karl
>
>   
try making a backup copy of your //etc/X11/xorg.conf file
then editing //etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver to "nv" instead 
of nvidia