[NTLUG:Discuss] How to revive local console

[Eric Waguespack]

>
> The computer is a stock Dell Optiplex 745.  I'm not sure what video
> card it is using, but it is one specifically for dual DVI monitors.
> As far as drivers go, I just installed a generic Ubuntu download for
> 8.10, which it self upgraded to 9.04.  I probably will go ahead and
> disable the screen saver.  I really don't need it on this machine.
> But, I must admit, there are some really magnificent patterns and
> colors in this collection of screen savers.
>
> I've gone in and looked with top a couple times when this has
> happened.  Nothing seems to be locked or hogging resources.  The
> screensaver just stops and nothing seems to wake it up or close it.
> Killing the screensaver doesn't help.  Restarting gdm doesn't seem to
> do anything either.
>
> Maybe it's the video card.  Can it be "restarted" or reinitialized so
> to speak?  Although I would think restarting gdm should do that.
>
> Thanks for the continued ideas.
>
> Michael

that system could have come with any of the following:

256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
128MB ATI Radeon X1300
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000

paste this in a terminal session and post the results

$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ lspci