Screen Freeze

[Robin Laing]

Per-Anton Running wrote:
> Hi all.
> A very annoying feature has suddenly caught up with me,  now when 
> running FC5.
> This has been a plague earlier with other distros, and after installing 
> FC5 it was "clean" for quite some time, until suddenly and with no 
> apparent motivation the screen freezes, i.e., no keyboard typing and no 
> mouseclicks are accepted.  Programs are still running, I have a back 
> door via my old backup machine, that is, I can establish a 
> SSH-connection and do a controlled shutdown via that back door. If I am 
> runnig emacs it seems to save the latest input in a #<filename.cc># 
> file, so nothing is lost. But it is annoying hainv to restart the 
> computer so frequently.
> Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone (in case) found a cure, or 
> is this something I have to live with?
> Could it be hardware related? Or driver related?
> I would be very thankful to have some comments on this.
> 
> PA
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Just in case, check your power supply voltages.  I had the same thing 
happen and it turned out to be a low +5v rail from the PS.  Just a thought.

-- 
Robin Laing