Subject: RE: Linux screen-saver lockup
From: Daniel Kerschbaum (dkersch@gci.net)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 20:32:03 AKDT
Larry, Greg, Ray,
Thanks for the helpful suggestions, I have used your x-window shortcuts
several times since you mentioned them, and they are really helpful in other
situations I have since run into. They do not help in this lockup case
though. I tried both and no response - it seems to lock on the high cpu
screen-savers compared to the textual ones. I'd like to try and reset the
video card buffers somehow remotely anyone have suggestions? If not I'm just
going to turn of the screen-savers even though some of them are really quite
cool.
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Collier [mailto:larry@medease.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:37 AM
To: Greg Jetter; Daniel Kerschbaum; aklug@tara-lu.com
Subject: RE: Linux screen-saver lockup
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-admin@tara-lu.com [mailto:aklug-admin@tara-lu.com]On Behalf
> Of Greg Jetter
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: Daniel Kerschbaum; aklug@tara-lu.com
> Subject: Re: Linux screen-saver lockup
>
>
> On Wednesday 03 October 2001 23:04, Daniel Kerschbaum wrote:
> > As a newbie, I'm not sure where to look for answers for this problem I'm
> > having. After I leave my computer unattended for a period of time the
> > X-screen saver kicks in and seems to hang the session. I can log in from
> > another machine and start killing off processes, but nothing
> seems to work
> > to clear my main terminal - I have to powercycle the box(yes I
> know that is
> > bad). What's odd is that some of the screen savers seem to run
> fine and it
> > doesn't seem to hang on the same one every time. I'm using
> Read-hat 7.0. on
> > a celeron.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before?
> >
> >
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> If the keyboard still works do a control-alt-backspace to kill
> the X server
> and restart it. I have had similar problems with some of the
> screen savers ,
> I just use the blank one , it seems to work all the time.
>
> Greg
>
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If you really want to reboot, you can ctrl-alt-f1, login to a console
session, and enter reboot. ctrl-alt-bkspc shuts down the X server while
ctrl-alt-f1 (and ...-f2, 3, 4, & 5) leave it running but let you regain
control. As far as I know there isn't a way to just kill the screensaver
and leave X running.
If you started X from a console session, you can switch to that one and
issue ctrl-C to shut down the X server more or less normally.
Larry
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