 | | | Display and hard lock problems | Display and hard lock problems 2003-06-22 - By Tom Diehl
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Hattie Rouge wrote:
> If your screensaver really died but you were still not back to normal,
> that implies the screensaver was not the problem. Or at least not the
> only problem.
>
> I've had screen savers hang a machine but in all cases, if it can be
> killed, everything clears up.
I suspect you are correct. This is a hard lock of the keyboard and video
display. Upon reboot the display does not come back until the bios resets it
at reboot time.
Since it is just a screensaver I can turn it off but with the 2.4.18 series
of kernels the machine was running since last Dec until a couple of weeks ago.
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