[CentOS] netbook screen suddenly goes black

Mon Jun 20 21:02:32 UTC 2016
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:13:35PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Fred Smith wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:59:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:58:54AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:34:30PM +0300, Александр Кириллов wrote:
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>> Hooold on thar! I came into this thread really late (like, today).
>> You're saying it's fine at work, but not at home?
>
> No. I'm saying it's only happened once since I installed C7, not long
> after it was released. While I haven't kept records of dates and times,
> I don't think it was at any specific time.
>
> I saw it 2 or 3 times previously, probably some Fedora version,... my
> tired old brain won't divulge that info right now.
>
> It seems reasonable that it's some kind of hardware issue but I don't
> see anything in the logs I've thought to check.
>
> I inquired, hoping some of you could suggest other places to look for
> info, in retrospect.

Ok, then at that point, I like Valery's suggestion. Try looking at
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

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