[lug] Death on monitor wake?

[Holshouser, David]

I would recommend the use of <ctrl><alt><Fx> where x=1..6
this might get you to an alternate console where you can kill things nicely
and may save you some system resetting

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Trowbridge [mailto:jupiter at flatirons.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:33 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Death on monitor wake?
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> -------------------
> David Trowbridge
> jupiter at flatirons.org
> http://jupiter.babylonia.flatirons.org
> 
> "Base 8 is just like base 10 really...if you're missing two fingers"
> 	-Tom Lehrer
> 
> 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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