> Alternatively, if you have another machine, leave the suspect laptop in > console mode, connect to it from the other machine with ssh -Y and run the > application using the display on the spare machine. Make sure you enable > X11Forwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. > > That will surely test if the problem is caused by X or not? > > Also, if you want minimal testing environment, why not twm? Trouble is, if > you start a KDE app under twm or lxde, it could fire up a lot KDE service > and processes anyway, so it may not be much different. > I gave XFCE a try last night after LXDE oddly refused to show up in KDM. No difference there. Will give this a try tonight, since this only seems to happen if left at night. I would have thought that if the problem was indeed X, then the Xorg.log (if not also the everything.log) should say something about it, right? Except there isn't, which is the puzzling bit.
> > The first thing I would suggest is when you have a problem like this and you > want help in resolving the issue you need to let us know what distro and > version you are using, what the spec of the machine particularly in this case > the video subsystem on the laptop, what make video is it, Intel, ATI or > Nvidia, > what drivers are you using etc. > Arch Linux... which doesn't exactly have a version, but I try to run an update on it daily at best. The laptop itself is an Acer Aspire 5742Z, using Intel graphics. > From what you have said I would suspect the screen saver. Try disabling the > screen saver and leave the lid of the laptop open overnight and see if you get > the lock up in the morning. If you have no lockup then trying selecting a > different screensaver, try a non GL screensaver. > Screensaver is and always has been disabled. As said, I just can't get along with them. I've tried leaving the lid open overnight too - the only difference is that the mouse cursor shows up on the black screen in the morning. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
