X Server Lockup

From: Duane A. Damiano (duane_at_damiano.name)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:14:13 -0400

All,

I just installed OpenBSD 3.7 and I am having the following problem:

If there is no activity on the X display for a few minutes, the
display goes blank and only a white underscore cursor appears in the
upper left corner of the screen. Pressing a key does not bring the
display back. I can't exit from the server with a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace,
nor can I switch to a different virtual terminal. I can find no key
or sequence of keys that has any effect. All I can do is power off.

This happens with both the default fvwm2 window manager and
with gnome-session. The graphics card is an NVIDIA TNT2.

I previously had OpenBSD 3.4 installed on this computer and did not
have this problem. Also, Linux runs on this computer without any
problem.

Any ideas?

Duane

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Duane A. Damiano duane@damiano.name
841 East Fort Avenue #310 Phone: 410-685-6221
Baltimore MD 21230-5117 U.S.A.

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