[Rnb] Frozen Screen

[Ron Wellsted]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:26:50AM +0100, David Goodwin wrote:
> Roger Frisby wrote:
> > Hi guys, I have had a couple of instances now where the screen freezes
> > and I lose the arrow pointer. If it happened with XP i would press
> > Control +Alt +Delete, but what do I do with linux.
> > 
> > I think it is happening when messing around with photo's. Not sure yet.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help. Roger
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> You can try pressing 'ctrl+alt+F1 or F2 or F3 etc.
> 
> However, a good first check is to see whether CAPS LOCK works - if the
> light on your keyboard doesn't go on/off, then your computer has
> probably had a kernel panic - or crashed in a nasty way - which nearly
> always indicates faulty hardware.
> 
> I'd strongly suggest you run e.g. memtest on your system first - it's
> included on the Ubuntu install CD as one of the first options you see
> when turning the computer and booting off the Cd.
> 
> thanks
> David.

If cap lock/numlock work, try ctrl-alt-backspace which will terminate
and restart the grphical session.


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