[lug] Death on monitor wake?

[David Trowbridge]

I've had the same problem, but I use APM instead of DPMS. I have one
question for you - is your buddy using the nVidia drivers? This is my
guess as to where the problem is but its just a shot in the dark.

-David

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David Trowbridge
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Ken Kinder wrote:

> A buddy of mine asked me for advice about his system seemingly hanging when
> he restores it from an idle mode. He's got a Red Hat 7.1 system and uses DPMS
> to shut down his monitor after a few minutes of inactivity. He set this all
> up KDE and for the most part, he's pleased with the power saving but
> something is going wrong.
>
> Anyway, it seems that every once in a while, it doesn't revive. He'll move
> the mouse, hear the monitor click a little, but never come fully alive.
> Turning on and off the monitor doesn't seem to help, but resetting the system
> does. The odd thing is, he can't do ctrl+alt+backspace for force X to quit,
> so I'm assuming the problem is in X hanging somewhere.
>
> It may not be the monitor -- maybe something else having to do with DPMS
> hangs? I'm not sure what it could be.
>
> Any thoughts on that? This is BTW a desktop machine, not a notebook.
>
> --
> Ken Kinder
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