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entwisi · 30-01-2008, 21:44

no issue with that Andrew,

Can I ask what type of driver you are using for the Gfx card. There is a standard one in the kernel called nv or there is a proprietry driver from Nvidia themselves that is called nvidia. The latter is usually installed using the restricted driver package .

It looks like your X server is whats dying. As X manages the screen and the HID's it doesn't surprise me that you get no response from the keyboard.

If you have another PC in the network you could try enabling ssh on your ubuntu and when it 'crashes' try to log on from the other PC using Putty if its windows or ssh CLI if its another *nix based machine. That will tell you if the kernel itself is dead or if its just X.( this is one of the beauty's of Linux over Windows. A crashed X system won;t kill teh kernel as its totally seperate. If you do log on you can even kill X from the other machine and restart it (use /etc/init.d/gdm stop and /etc/init.d/gdm start )

If your using teh nvidia package try dropping back to nv to test. If its fine on that then let us have more details of what driver version you are using.

Also, Have you enabld compiz Fusion?

30-01-2008, 21:44	#7
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: So much for stable XD no issue with that Andrew, Can I ask what type of driver you are using for the Gfx card. There is a standard one in the kernel called nv or there is a proprietry driver from Nvidia themselves that is called nvidia. The latter is usually installed using the restricted driver package . It looks like your X server is whats dying. As X manages the screen and the HID's it doesn't surprise me that you get no response from the keyboard. If you have another PC in the network you could try enabling ssh on your ubuntu and when it 'crashes' try to log on from the other PC using Putty if its windows or ssh CLI if its another *nix based machine. That will tell you if the kernel itself is dead or if its just X.( this is one of the beauty's of Linux over Windows. A crashed X system won;t kill teh kernel as its totally seperate. If you do log on you can even kill X from the other machine and restart it (use /etc/init.d/gdm stop and /etc/init.d/gdm start ) If your using teh nvidia package try dropping back to nv to test. If its fine on that then let us have more details of what driver version you are using. Also, Have you enabld compiz Fusion? __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?