Computer crashs when I'm away for a while

cgr122 · 01-31-2004, 04:14 PM

Hi, I am using Slackware 9.1. Everything works fine with the distro except that when I leave my computer running and I come bac kto it, sometimes the screen is black and no matter what I do it stays frozen. I can't access any other terminals to see whats wrong and my only option that I know of is to do a hard reboot. Does anyone know how I can find out what is wrong and fix it or know of a way to unfreeze it when it does that?

Thanks in advance.

Kilka · 01-31-2004, 04:23 PM

If you hit one of the keys on the keyboard that makes lights like numlock, does the light go on and off or is it a hard freeze ?

-Kilka

cgr122 · 01-31-2004, 04:38 PM

Num lock and caps lock are all frozen as well... So i'm thinking there is no way to recover from it.. It doesnt make sense to me. Could it be the screen saver crashing or an incompatible screen saver I wonder? I am using the newest nvidia drivers on an TI 4200.

Thanks for the help.

Astro · 01-31-2004, 05:03 PM

Ahhhh yes the newest nvidia drivers.... My card (FX5600 Ultra) wouldn't work with them at all... try the lext to latest ones and check your results.

Linux Display Driver - IA32
Version: 1.0-4496
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: July 28, 2003

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-4496.html

cgr122 · 01-31-2004, 05:14 PM

well I had the problem with the old drivers as well, although that was on a different installation of slackware. I changed the screen saver so that it plays the same screen saver all the time and I will see if that helps any. BTW, is there a log file I can check to see what happened before my computer crashed? Maybe this would help?

Thanks

Astro · 01-31-2004, 05:19 PM

syslog might be a place to look - /var/log/syslog
or the messages log - /var/log/messages
and the X log - /var/log/XFree86.0.log

Minderbinder · 02-02-2004, 07:51 AM

Did you edit your XF86Config file per the instructions that come with the nvidia drivers? If you don't you will crash whenever an opengl screen saver starts.