[COLUG] Odd hardware / graphics behavior under C5

[Josh]

> Test your memory, just in case OO pigginess is exposing a
> memory hardware problem.

Thanks, I'll do that.  After my original post on this topic, I posted 
again with a report that my fiancee's Dell E1505N (with Ubuntu FF 
pre-installed) does the same thing.  A list poster suggested that I remove 
any reference to Wacom tablets in the XOrg.conf file.  I took a peek 
there, and there's no reference of Wacom tablets there - just the hardware 
I actually have.

The only common denominator between the two boxes is Intel display chipset 
- I believe mine is an 835 and hers is a 915, iirc.

On the Dell, we can "shake things loose" by hitting the blue Fn button and 
several keys with the blue labels in sequence (i.e. sleep buttons, display 
control buttons, etc).  After a few minutes, the laptop again becomes 
responsive.  On my desktop, however - a Shuttle PC with an old IBM 
"normal" keyboard - there's no way to 'shake it loose' short of ssh in and 
kill the X server.  (In the past we had this issue with FireFox, and you 
could make it responsive again by killing FireFox - but in the case of 
OOo, you have to kill the entire X server.)

Cheers,
-J