[TriLUG] RH 7.1 on ThinkPad T21 hanging

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Now that I'm using my T21 more and more, I'm leaving it on for
longer periods of time.  Not as long as I'd like, though,
since it seems to do a hard hang sometimes.  At least twice
I've noticed that it happened when xscreensaver was running
the greynetic hack; that's what was frozen on the screen.

BIOS functions seem unaffected; the keyboard light, speaker
volume and mute, idle screen power-off, and similar things
are still accessible and running.  Once the screen goes
dark, though, nothing will paint it when a keyboard or mouse
action happens; I'm not even sure it powers back up (but I think
it does).

The only way I've found to get out of this is to hold the
power key down for 10+ seconds -- which blows away any
work-in-progress, of course. :-(

Has anyone here encountered anything like this?

On a brighter note, VMware rocks. :-)
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