Every once in a while, my cursor will stop blinking and all terminal output will be stopped as if I hit ctrl-s. Hitting any key or moving the mouse of even unplugging my head phones wil make it start blinking again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot gentoo 2. Wait a little bit (sometimes it even happens before the login prompt) 3. Notice the cursor stops blinking and all output stops Actual Results: Cursor doesn't blink. No additional output shown Expected Results: Cursor continues to blink. Output continues to be shown This doesn't happen after a fixed amount of time, sometimes it will lock up after 2 seconds, other times 2 minutes. It also never happens when I am running X. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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Are you using framebuffer? grep -e video -e vga /boot/grub/grub.conf What video card?
(In reply to comment #1) > Are you using framebuffer? Yes > grep -e video -e vga /boot/grub/grub.conf I have vga set to 0x746 or something, which makes the framebuffer 1440x900 > What video card? nVidia 8600M GS > Unfortunately, that computer stopped working so I can't get any more information until I transfer the hard drive to my new one.
