Screen Freeze
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Tue Nov 7 20:58:01 UTC 2006
At 7:27 PM +0100 11/7/06, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
>Hi all.
>A very annoying feature has suddenly caught up with me, now when
>running FC5.
>This has been a plague earlier with other distros, and after installing
>FC5 it was "clean" for quite some time, until suddenly and with no
>apparent motivation the screen freezes, i.e., no keyboard typing and no
>mouseclicks are accepted.
It sounds like X is stuck. Does Ctl-Alt-F1 (or F2) give you a Virtual
Terminal?
>Programs are still running, I have a back
>door via my old backup machine, that is, I can establish a
>SSH-connection and do a controlled shutdown via that back door. If I am
>runnig emacs it seems to save the latest input in a #<filename.cc>#
>file, so nothing is lost. But it is annoying hainv to restart the
>computer so frequently.
>Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone (in case) found a cure, or
>is this something I have to live with?
>Could it be hardware related? Or driver related?
>I would be very thankful to have some comments on this.
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