Noveau still unstable?

[stan]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:11:17 -0700
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com> wrote:

> However, the odd behavior where Fedora decides to ignore all input
> except for mouse movement persists.  When this happens, Fedora
> seems to slowly grind to a catatonic state which requires a
> hardware reset.  This was Monday morning with a fully updated
> 64 bit Fedora 17 on an 8GB Intel i5.

Have you tried any of these key sequences to recover?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq

Try r to get keyboard back to translate.  You should then be able to
move to a console and check out what is happening.  There are other key
descriptions in that article.

If that does nothing, using e then i, should get you back to a system
with only init running.  Again, at that point you should be able to
access a console, though the system will be more primitive.

No dice?  s to sync the file systems, b to reboot.

At least this gives you more options than rebooting directly.