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[Colin Law]

On 26 August 2014 08:29, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my asus netbook I've got xubuntu 12.04 and bodhi installed.  On both
> systems the screen goes all white on a regular basis.  How can I tell if
> it's a software or hardware issue?  The fact that it happens on both
> suggests to me it's hardware, especially since they use different kernels.
>
> This message keeps getting kicked back by the xubuntu mailing list.  I have
> had no responses from Bohdi forums.
>
> Perhaps there is a error message recorded somewhere?

See if you can switch to a terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F1, that should
give you a terminal where you can login.  Go back to your normal
session with Ctrl+Alt+F7.

If you can get to the terminal then you can login and look at the log
files, for example
tail -f /var/log/syslog
>From the terminal you can do a safe shutdown with
sudo shutdown -h now

If you cannot get to a terminal then reboot and look at syslog to see
if anything there at the point of failure.

Another thing you can try is to boot into a live image and select the
ram test option.  Leave it running for long enough to see if you get
the problem, and also watch for ram errors.

Colin