At 7:27 PM +0100 11/7/06, Per-Anton Rønning wrote: >Hi all. >A very annoying feature has suddenly caught up with me, now when >running FC5. >This has been a plague earlier with other distros, and after installing >FC5 it was "clean" for quite some time, until suddenly and with no >apparent motivation the screen freezes, i.e., no keyboard typing and no >mouseclicks are accepted. It sounds like X is stuck. Does Ctl-Alt-F1 (or F2) give you a Virtual Terminal? >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 >runnig emacs it seems to save the latest input in a #<filename.cc># >file, so nothing is lost. But it is annoying hainv to restart the >computer so frequently. >Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone (in case) found a cure, or >is this something I have to live with? >Could it be hardware related? Or driver related? >I would be very thankful to have some comments on this. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
