Screen Freeze

[Andy Green]

Per-Anton Rønning wrote:

> apparent motivation the screen freezes, i.e., no keyboard typing and no 
> mouseclicks are accepted.  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 

If you are in fact running Xorg, can it be some problem with X or 
between the video card and its bus somehow?  In this case, next time it 
freezes, try to ssh in and only

killall -9 Xorg

and see if the (hopefully provoked) subsequent respawning of Xorg gets 
you back working again without a reboot.

-Andy