On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:11:09 +0000, Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, X or KDE (I don't know which one...) freezes fairly > often... I can, of course, hit the reset button on the front of the > computer, but that's not good a good thing to do. Is there anyything > else I may be able to do? I don't want to lose data... > > Seems like > either keyboard input is ignored, or the stuff projected to the screen > completely freezes. Probably the second, since I can still move the > mouse around. Just can't click anything, and icons and all don't change > when I mouse-over them.
I've gotton a similar problem, when using an nvidia card with nvidia's driver on a cheap motherboard. It had problems with AGP. If you are using an nvidia card w/ nvidia driver, try adding the line Option "NvAGP" "0" to your "Device" section, and see if that improves stability > Hey... That gives me an idea. Think it could be that just video output > is forzen, so I could hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root and reboot or > something? You may be able to ssh in from another box and restart X to recover. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
