why my machine gets deadlocked after up2date?

[Richard E Miles]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:25:13 -0700 (PDT)
BB Cao <pearlsmm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> My FC3 used to work quite well, things went weird
> after I updated it last weekend. After the screensaver
> runs a while, it just deadlocks there and won't
> response anything. What is wrong, please? Right now, I
> have two versions, one is with the old kernel and the
> other one with new kernel, it happens on both
> versions, so I guess ... 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best,
>  BB Cao
> 
> 

There is a known problem with certain xscreensaver programs that cause the
system to lock up. I would set it to just blank the screen instead of
running random screensavers.

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097