On Wednesday 02 April 2003 22:26, 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 > This is might not be related, but my laptop locks up the same way. The only solution is to use the powerbutton. This happens with the pulsar screensaver. If I click on the screensaver in the controlpanel (KDE) the preview starts up, but freezes everything after less than one second. I've got an ati radeon 7500, 32mb. -- Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen@xxxxxxxxxxxx, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway
