Screen Freeze

[Andy Green]

Per-Anton Rønning wrote:

> I am not alone having this problem obviously (ref. Nigel - FC2), and I 
> have also had it with SuSE, Mandrake and Mandriva. But never with good 
> old Red Hat 7.2!

Well a lot of code changed since RH7.2 :-)  Maybe the nVidia binary can 
solve your problem, but I would be tempted to try to see if I could find 
the direction it is coming from first, because otherwise one is just 
swapping things out hoping for a magic result without even a little 
understanding of what the rules of the game are.  That would mean next 
time you must ssh in, do

less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and hit the End key to see what the last kind of happenings are in the 
log.  Also

dmesg

and again look for any funnies.  Then

killall Xorg

and see if your box comes back okay without needing a reboot.

Also if there is a BIOS update for your motherboard possible, maybe that 
is worth a go.

A lot of folks report having luck with the livna packaged version of the 
nVidia binary if you do have to go that route.

-Andy