Subject: base: Screen becomes one color. Sound continues.<br>Package: base<br>Justification: breaks the whole system<br>Severity: critical<br><br>I use Debian Unstable on a ASUS eee 1005HA.<br><br>Suddenly, while using the computer, the screen becomes one color.<br>
I have seen black, off-white or even blue!<br>The error does not affect sound, like Youtube or Spotify. It keeps playing.<br><br>When the problem occurs, the only way to make it work, is to reboot the computer.<br>It boots up fine every time.<br>
<br>The error happens several times a day. Usually while surfing the web. I use IceWeasel.<br>Ubuntu did not have this bug on the same laptop.<br><br>I use Gnome. All is updated via apt-get.<br><br><br>-- System Information:<br>
Debian Release: squeeze/sid<br> APT prefers testing<br> APT policy: (500, 'testing')<br>Architecture: i386 (i686)<br><br>Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)<br>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash<br>