X crashes, black screen video signal still there, and have to shutdown and power up

OK, I fixed my swap file. I must had accidently put swap file during Debian's net-install a few months ago. Now, it is a swap parbreastion. However, that doesn't help with my black screen problem. sighs

Interesting. I tried resetting my KDE back to defaults (renamed .kdeand .kderc). I was able to reproduce the problem.

I decided to try Gnome instead of KDE. Gnome worked and I see the problem. Corrupted texts! See screen shot. I think this is what causing the crash.

It sounds like a software problem, but X crashes so hard and I have to power off the system to fix my X? I don't think it is heat either because I turned the box off for 15 minutes, powered back on, and still crashes (reproduced).

Is there a bug in X (x.org v1:7.0.22) or something I don't know about? According to he-she doesn't see a driver-hardware problem.

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