Re: screen saver freezes on 9.3

From: TokaMundo (TokaMundo_at_weedizgood.org)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:29:57 GMT

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:36:01 GMT, rsina
<rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> Gave us:

>Hi all, I have suse 9.3 on my powerspec desktop, and I am getting about one
>or two crashes per week, usually when I have left the computer alone for a
>while. When I get back to my machine I see that either the screensaver has
>frozen or or the monitor is giving an error that there is no signal.

  I have found this issue from choosing one of the open GL
screensavers.

  Choose a different screen saver, and see if the problem goes away.

  Also, it could be your power management setting. Make sure that you
are NOT turning off hard drives. There is no need to sleep elements
of your machine (other than the screen) if it is not a laptop.

 As far as my claim about the GL selections, I have had that happen to
me. I had not yet installed the Mfgrs driver (nvidia in my case)
allowing the 3d hardware to be initialized.

> I
>leave the computer on all the time and these happen about 10% of the times
>when I get back to it. Moving the mouse and hitting the keyboard has no
>effect; and alt-ctrl-delete or alt-ctrl-bkspace won't do a thing. The only
>thing I can do is a hard restart. Any one else having this problem and any
>idea what could be the cause?
>

  I would definitely check the power saving/management "features".

>Thanks.

  NP HTH

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