Re: Linux ....grrrr!

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 03 August 2002 10:24 am, Tony Butler wrote:
> After our recent discussions on which Linux distro to go for for easy
of
> installation & use, I settled on Mandrake 8.2
> d/led it, fed 3 CD's into a retired PC and....

Good choice.

> Log in to a command prompt and about every 5-10 seconds the screen
goes
> blank for a few seconds.
> If I have been typing something, then nothing I type whilst the
screen
> is blank appears when the display returns.
> Installed twice and same thing both times - this is not even with
X
> running ffs :-(

Sounds like a hardware problem rather than Linux specifically to me. How
loong 
is it since this "retired" PC was last used? Has it had any
hardware swapped 
in/out of it since then?

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