Screen Freeze

Per-Anton Rønning pa-ronn at online.no
Tue Nov 7 20:03:11 UTC 2006


My card is NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 - re. X driver I am not sure. Have 
never tried to find out, where should I look?
PA
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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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