I had that problem with an older motherboard with on-board video. Every time it would try to start a 3d screensaver, the machine would hang. I just set my screensaver to blank the screen, and that fixed the problem. Jared Smith On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:26, Matt Whiteley wrote: > So, my shrike box is locking up periodically on the screensaver. It is > not locking up when the screensaver starts but from my best guess when > it tries to shut down the monitor, or perhaps when changing to another > random screensaver. It locks to the point where the keyboard isn't > reactive (numlock or capslock keys will not toggle the lights) and you > cannot ssh to the box. > How do I track down the problem here? I was running evolution, mozilla, > xmms, and xchat when the screensaver became active. This is a real pain > as I had to do a hard reboot and then my software raid mirror takes a > couple hours to resync itself. > > The machine is older and fully supported from what I can tell: > > ABIT KT7A-RAID > ATI Radeon 32 mb ddr > > thanks, > > -- > Matt Whiteley <matt-whiteley@xxxxxxxxx>
