What kind of graphics card are you using, and which X driver? On 11/7/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Per-Anton Rønning wrote: > apparent motivation the screen freezes, i.e., no keyboard typing and no > mouseclicks are accepted. Programs are still running, I have a back > door via my old backup machine, that is, I can establish a > SSH-connection and do a controlled shutdown via that back door. If I am If you are in fact running Xorg, can it be some problem with X or between the video card and its bus somehow? In this case, next time it freezes, try to ssh in and only killall -9 Xorg and see if the (hopefully provoked) subsequent respawning of Xorg gets you back working again without a reboot.
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