on Mon, Oct 14, 2002, Rob Weir (rweir@softhome.net) wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm running X 4.2.1-0pre1v1 with the Free NVidia driver, a normal PS/2
> keyboard, and a Logitech USB scroll mouse. Every now and then, X goes
> weird and drops me down to the virtual consoles. At first I thought X
> had just crashed, but I switched back to vt7 and X alive and well,
> mostly. The mouse cursor is locked as `I'-bar text cursor, and mouse
> clicks have no effect. The keyboard is completely unresponsive as well.
>
> Has anyone had this problem before and found a solution, aside from
> kill'ing X?
Not quite exactly matching your situation, but some suggestions:
- Is it X11 or the window manager that's hung? In my case, I can
restart a frozen WindowMaker session by sending it a SIGUSR1. My
windows and workspaces shuffle around, but I don't lose application
state.
- Have you checked ~/.xsession, ~/.xsession-errors, or
/var/log/XFree86.0.log (or other display as appropriate) for error
messages? Do this *before* starting a new session.
Peace.
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