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Re: Locked Up Computer
- To: http://www.juno.com/~w1few (Richard), http://www.adelphia.net/~bhavani (Richard), http://www.dracomp.com/~r (Richard)
- Subject: Re: Locked Up Computer
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:26:02 -0800
- Keywords: http://www.dracomp.com/~r
> From: R <http://www.dracomp.com/~r>
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:26:43 -0500
>
> Hi Robert,
> I have a strange problem on the Linux computer. I start up the system,
> login and do my editing okay. But then I let it sit doing nothing and when
> the screen goes black, the keyboard locks up and I can't get the computer
> going again unless I reboot. ANy thoughts?
> ME
> From: R <http://www.dracomp.com/~r>
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:36:16 -0500
>
> I turned off the POWER DOWN mode in the SETUP screen.
> From: R <http://www.dracomp.com/~r>
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:32:51 -0500
>
> And I tried several keyboards.
Are you running X Windows? I've seen this behavior with X Windows with
DPMS mode; it's because the monitor does not support this mode.
When this happens, try switching screens with CTL-ALT-F1. If that works,
then this is likely the problem. If it is, then running
$ xset -dpms
in your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession will fix it.