Reply to post: Re: Stupid

The Return of BSOD: Does ANYONE trust Microsoft patches?

keithpeter Silver badge
Windows

Re: Stupid

"Tell me which distro/version and which app you installed on it, and I will verify."

Kernel panics resulting in a black screen with a hex dump and total lock up are very rare in my experience. The last one I had was a 2.6.x series kernel on a Samsung NC10 netbook. I think it was Ubuntu 10.10 or something. There was an issue with power saving being applied to the rt series wifi driver causing a panic. Resolved in a subsequent kernel update - this was during the pre-release testing period.

It is usually hardware driver based. Not fonts!

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