Matthew Garman wrote: > Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedly lock up my system---and I > mean *completely* lock up my system, can't ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to switch to a > text console, I can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace, etc. Nothing works. > > Obviously I don't like lockups like that, since I have to restart my > computer without shutting down properly. > > Anyone know what might be causing this? Is it likely a hardware problem? > Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing?
I have a G400 and I used to (long time ago) have that sort of thing happen. It was more frequent with my TNT2ultra at the time. Lately I haven't had problems (in fact, some speed improvements). I'm running linux 2.4.10 and X 4.1.0.1. Do you have the ability to telnet/ssh in? That's usually how I was able to fix it cleanly... but sometimes it wouldn't let you do that either. -- Mike Brownlow ><> http://www.wsmake.org/~mike/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1024D/8AA6EAFD 3861 96B3 EEA2 285C BE23 F706 3E1E EBB2 8AA6 EAFD
