okay, xfree-4.2 from cvs built and instanned nicely, and performs nicely. but i've hit a snag here and am soliciting suggestions.
i've had it running here over two nights, and in both of them during the night the screen went blank -- not an apm thing; there's still signal to the screen -- and nothing i do short of a cold boot will bring back my desktop. i have no reason to think that the machine itself has stopped working and instead suspect that keyboard/mouse input are blocked. can't change to a different virtual terminal. (in fact, i know that the machine continues to work -- /var/log/messages reports cron has run its hourly run throughout, though i do not know the point at which the screen goes south.) this with xscreensavers-4.0 running atop kde. no logfiles provide anything out of the ordinary, at least in this connection. (i am puzzled by this, though: Jan 29 00:14:00 depoffice /USR/SBIN/CRON[2847]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily) Jan 29 00:15:13 depoffice su: (to nobody) root on none Jan 29 00:15:13 depoffice PAM-unix2[3083]: session started for user nobody, service su Jan 29 00:20:15 depoffice PAM-unix2[3083]: session finished for user nobody, service su i was not doing anything at all at that time.) there was a time when the "extrusion" GL screensaver would reliably break things, but i have it turned off. and the other screensavers i've run uneventfully. fwiw, card is a g-400 w/32 megs, machine is an athlon-1.2 with 768 megs. i think i have the agp stuff set in the bios at 64 megs -- i've never understood what this is about anyway; i understand that it is supposed somehow to give the card access to main memory, which i'd just as soon not do anyway. puzzling thing is, and it could be merely coincidence, this has happened only during the night. if i leave the computer alone for many hours during the day, it does not exhibit this misbehavior. which leads me to wonder if there's something in a cron job that is triggering the problem. no, i don't have a telnet server set up at all, so i can't go in and look that way. ideas? -- dep There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
