[Nottingham] Strange random reboot problem with Mandriva 2006: tentatively [SOLVED]

Peter Aldred peter at aldred.org
Wed Oct 19 11:09:59 BST 2005


On 17/10/05, Peter Aldred <peteraldred at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/10/05, Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Peter Aldred wrote:
> >
> > > My first thought was a power-saving mode problem causing a hang, but I think
> > > I've switched it all off, both in KDE and Mandriva Control. I haven't checked
> > > the BIOS yet, that's my next step.
> >
> > What screensaver do you have set up? I've seen a number of hangs with
> > fullscreen OpenGL hacks, due to flaky drivers.
>
> I am using an OpenGL screensaver, the default fireworks one. I'll try
> disabling/changing that and see how it goes.

Well, I've disabled it, and it hasn't done any rebooting since. I'll
have to wait for some better drivers before I can see the pretty
fireworks.

Thanks Rob for your help, much appreciated!
--
Pete



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