Cinnamon crashes to black screen

[mixolyd]

My system is core 2 duo T5470 1.6ghz, Intel 965 graphics card, 3gb RAM

First time installing linux. I installed LM 13 64bit with Cinnamon. Sort of randomly (but I tend to have a bunch of windows open) the screen goes completely black, and I have to long press to reboot. I switched to MATE and thus far have not experienced this issue.

[Nyphur (nyphur)]

Hi. I am experiencing a similar sounding problem.

My system is 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz, 2GB RAM, and the same Graphics card - Intel 965GM.

Occasionally the system will crash to back screen. The cursor is still visible, and can be moved. It also apears to be "active" - for example if the screen crashes whilst I am in a document, the curosr will swap to the "text" mode if i hover over text.
I cannot identify a pattern for the crashes. I have caused the system to crash on occasion on the log in screen by clicking "actions" then cancel.

Thanks

[_git (hdt-q)]

Hi, can your problem be related to following one?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1008197

[How (wonghow)]

I got what seemed to be a similar problem.

Cinnamon crash or even restart itself under different conditions I am experiencing.
Black screen when come out of lockscreen, or black screen after using opengl full screen apps. or restarts always when after you install wine and access the mint menu

[Endre Stølsvik (stolsvik)]

.. as Wonghow comments, I get this when I get out of the screen-turned-off mode.