On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:40, Martin Gilje Jaatun wrote: > > Every once in a while (often, but not always, over the weekend) my > > keyboard and screen "dies". Usually, I will arrive at my office to find > > the screen blank, and the keyboard unresponsive (no reaction to num-lock > > etc.). The machine doesn't crash, however; I can ssh to it from another > > machine, but I am unable to find a process to kill to fix the problem > > Got about the same problem on a p4 with the binary nVidia drivers > installed. Downgrading to the slower Xfree drivers fixed it. The problem seems to be related to the GLX-enabled screen savers and at least the nVidia binary drivers. (I suspect the time you came in to see the frozen screen, it just happened before screen blanking occurred.) You can disable GLX screensavers or select a safe screensaver and turn the rest off, or just blank the screen. No need to downgrade drivers. I did try to recover by killing X once and sustained file system damage. I never figured out what happened, but I now just reboot when I get the freeze. We should probably all complain on the nVidia discussion groups to get the issue fixed. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
