This summary has been a long time in coming as the original intermitent
problem I was having with the loss of graphics/keboard/mouse has taken some
time to re-occur. I have consequently only just got arround to testing out
some of the suggestions made by others.
Some reported very similar problems and had not found a solution. Everyone
else suggested I should be able to avoid rebooting by just restarting X. The
common suggestion was to use:
/sbin/init.d/xlogin restart
However this did not work for me. I got an error message saying that X could
not be killed. looking at the processes it was clear that X was grabing 99%
of the CPU cycles. I ended up killing X manually, then I could not restart
(/sbin/init.d/xlogin start) until I had run xsetup(?). Well I avoided
rebooting but I can't say the process was satisfactory. Some suggested (Dr
Blinn) that this is probably a hardware induced problem. However I need the
4D51T card for accelerated OpenGL.
Original question:
I have a DPW500 which is running 5.0A. It is used as a workstation with
myself as the main user - I should also say I use CDE and have a 4D51T
graphics card. Normally if I stay logged in the screen saver will blank out
the screen after so long - moving the mouse of course brings back the
graphics. Now, about every six weeks I will move the mouse to get the
graphics back and nothing will happen. If I power cycle the monitor it will
say there is no signal. There appears to be no response to mouse or keyboard
input. The only way I can get the graphics back is by loging in remotely and
rebooting. This has been going on regularly about every six weeks.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Simon
Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 14:25:54 NZST