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 (I tried just killing X, an even that did not help). So far, I've had to simply shut down & reboot every time this happens. This morning offered a variation - instead of a black screen, the "star wars writing" Xscreensaver was displayed (but stalled).
I regularily update "everything" via the RHN update agent, so I should be pretty much up-to-date. To the best of my knowledge, I've turned off any and all power-save options in the BIOS.
Is this an obscure hardware bug, or has anyone experienced anything similar?
hmm, it could be obscure driver issues, or a hardware bug - I used to see this sort of thing years ago - but I was able to ssh in and fix things by killing off all X processes and restarting X - but that hasn't happened to me since before RH 7.3...
Just curious, what sort of video card - just a wild guess, is it an ati?
Joe
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