Screen Freeze

[Lonni J Friedman]

What kind of graphics card are you using, and which X driver?

On 11/7/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> 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.

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