The gnome screensaver is locking my machine. When I return to my computer
and L/click screen to deactivate screensaver, all action stops and no key
or set of keys will allow me to access the O.S. This occurs whether I log
in as root or user. Any suggestions??

root wrote:
> The gnome screensaver is locking my machine. When I return to my computer
> and L/click screen to deactivate screensaver, all action stops and no key
> or set of keys will allow me to access the O.S. This occurs whether I log
> in as root or user. Any suggestions??

Change to default or blank screensaver until you learn how to
optimise your graphics card,

HTH

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root <gosunlee@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> The gnome screensaver is locking my machine. When I return to my computer
> and L/click screen to deactivate screensaver, all action stops and no key
> or set of keys will allow me to access the O.S. This occurs whether I log
> in as root or user. Any suggestions??

Is there a process called gnome-screensaver? If so, kill it.

Does ctrl+alt+f1 work after you've frozen?

Anything in the logs like /var/log/messages or ../gnome* ?

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On 2008-07-20, root <gosunlee@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> The gnome screensaver is locking my machine. When I return to my computer
> and L/click screen to deactivate screensaver, all action stops and no key
> or set of keys will allow me to access the O.S. This occurs whether I log
> in as root or user. Any suggestions??

I had this when I used "restricted nvidia drivers". Removed them from
my laptop.

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> The gnome screensaver is locking my machine. When I return to my computer
> and L/click screen to deactivate screensaver, all action stops and no key
> or set of keys will allow me to access the O.S. This occurs whether I log
> in as root or user. Any suggestions??

Don't forget you can use the Alt-SysRq-r key combination to take control
of the keyboard from a locked X Windows.

Then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a virtual console, log in as root, and restart the
GUI (I run "/etc/init.d/gdm restart", for example).

But also see the advice the others gave.

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