Frozen

[Bill Oliver]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Patrick Dupre wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On a fedora 19 laptop, I use to experience frosing of the screen.
> It may have different matter, like unable to compose in a terminal
> window (but sill able to use the mouse), or in the worst situation,
> the screen remains black (no way to use the keyboard), ie. I need to
> unpluck the laptop and remove the battery.
> This looks like to linked to the screen locking. I do not use a
> screensaver.
> I do not know how to debug this issue!
>
> Can I get some helps?
>
> Thank.
>

There are two things that immediately come to mind.  The first is that you don't have the right driver for your graphics card.  The symptoms you describe used to happen to me all the time, but in recent fedora releases, it's been pretty good at figuring out the right driver.  You might need to tell folk what laptop you have and what kind of graphics it has.

The other possibility is that this is a desktop issue rather than a fedora issue.  You will need to tell people what desktop you are using -- Gnome/KDE/LXDE, etc.


billo