This finally did solve my problem. I turned off the screen saver entirely and now have blessed stability. Think I'll try turning DRI back on to be really nitpicky and rule out any problems with that and my Radeon 9000 card. Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 13:35, Matthew J. Axsom wrote: > I have the same issue. Running an Asus A75266-D with a Radeon VE card and > dri. When the screen saver locks it up I can't even ssh in from another > machine to shut it down. There is no info I could ever find in the logs that > was of any use. I had the same issue with Red Hat 7.3 I am guessing it has to > do with dri support and the fact that I am using this particular video card. > > Rather than mess with disabling dri "because I want it" I just set the screen > saver to blanking only and this saves some cpu cycles and runs rock solid. > > Matt. > > Quoting Christian Thibodeau <jlcthibo@uumail.gov.bc.ca>: > > > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 21:24, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > > > Well it happened to me again. Everything was going along swimmingly on > > > my new machine, I had a great time checking email in Evolution and > > > filing Bugzilla's. Then I went out for a bite to eat and when I > > > returned, I found my screensaver frozen solidly in place. Keyboard and > > > mouse unresponsive. X has frozen more solidly than concrete! I then > > > reluctantly punched the reset button on my shiny new Antec case. I'm > > > glad to see I connected the right wire to the right motherboard header > > > -- it reset my system. > > > > > > > I do not know if this will help you, but I know of at least one person > > in our office, whose system was locking up when some of the screensavers > > were running, that fixed the problem by commenting out the [Load "dri"] > > in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. > > > > -- > > Christian Thibodeau > > Open Systems > > Operations > > Common IT Services > > Ministry of Management Services > > Phone: 250-387-5993 Fax: 250-387-5231 > > mailto:jlcthibo@uumail.gov.bc.ca > > http://cits.gov.bc.ca > > > > > > > > -- > > Psyche-list mailing list > > Psyche-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
