[xubuntu-users] Occasional hang

[Ric Moore]

On 04/30/2013 02:38 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I'm running 12.04 and every so often, a total of four times now since
> about two or three kernel updates back, my system will get stuck in
> xscreensaver and just hang.  It could be (probably is) since the last
> update to xorg.
>
> There are a ton of errors in my .xsession-errors.old file, but I'm not
> sure wha they all are - lots are GNOME and NVidia errors I don't
> exactly understand, but I can google them.
>
> When the system hangs, it does just that - no keyboard input, no mouse
> response, even the num lock stays on when I type it to go off and the
> caps lock is likewise dead (off).
>
> What should I be looking at/for?
If you used the standard Ubuntu method of installing your nVidia 
drivers, run the nVidia-Xserver-settings app installed with your driver. 
dink with it's settings and save a new /etc.X11/xorg.conf file. That 
should cure any nVidia errors. Ric



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