On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite > strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing > pinged??
Yes. It is not likely a CPU problem. It is more likely that something is wrong with your X - perhaps a video driver - and it is hanging the console. I bet you can log in on telnet and do all kinds of stuff - basically everything except reset the display. SVGATextMode may be able to help you - see if you can use it to save a known video state, then, next time you hang, log in via telnet and use it to restore said state. It might work.
