Hi Akemi, Thanks you for the links. I installed nvidia as you suggested. I'll just have to wait and see if this fixes the problem. Best, Valentin On 10/22/2016 09:02 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Valentin B <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Recently I upgraded a machine from 6.8 to 7.2 (Nitrogen). The machine is >> randomly frozen and nothing works afterwards. No ctrl+alt+f2,f3,f4 etc. >> The machine seems to be reponsive since I can ssh to it. > >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX >> 550 Ti] (rev a1) > > >> I've done some research on the net and saw the following links that >> describe the problem. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158879 >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87819 >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188004 > > According to comment #23 of the 2nd link above ( > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87819#c23 ), > > "Module nouveau from linux-3.19.1 seems to fix the bug" > > So, it may be worthwhile for you to test-install ELRepo's kernel-ml > which is at version 4.8.4. > > However, a better solution could be to use ELRepo's Nvidia driver. > More details can be found at: > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect > > Akemi > -- Valentin Bajrami Kapteyn Astronomical Institute University of Groningen Postbus 800 NL-9700 AV Groningen The Netherlands Phone: +31-(0)50-3634068 PGP Fingerprint: 50D7 E233 C2E0 1C81 BB7F F8D8 E51B CF89 A52E 5271