Only recourse is hard landing and reboot. I suspect that it has to do with the graphics driver, but I am not sure. Any suggestion where to start looking?
Thanks in advance.
Switch off all screensaving? Maybe
Or try without any effects enabled?
Under Personal Settings -> Desktop? I unclicked “Start automatically”
I already have desktop effect disabled.
Anything else?
Tried Caf4926’s suggestion, but system still hangs.
The reason I think it is the graphics driver is that when it hangs, it shows the little x (rather than the mouse or the circle) as in sax setup, and the background is black with blue dots!!??
BTW my graphics card uses ATI HD 4850 (if I remember correctly).
I tried to install that package once, and it completely broke my x server. In fact you help me recover from that. Take a look at this thread to refresh your memory.
But I can’t even find a driver in the ATI list for the GPU you quoted.
I must have tried to 4800 series; I don’t remember exactly. That may be the reason the x-server broke.