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On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Happy Holidays, Everyone, |
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> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an |
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> issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). |
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> Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the |
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> monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the |
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> screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get |
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> the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power |
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> button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today. |
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> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my |
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> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or |
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> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer |
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> booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor |
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> the mouse work. |
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> Any ideas? |
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> Regards, |
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> Colleen |
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> Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, |
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> http://counter.li.org |
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When the screen locks, is it the whole computer? Can you do a CTRL+F7 and |
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get to a console? |
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As to your current predicament, I would give a livecd a try and see if the |
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keyboard and mouse work in that. |
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What I'm driving at here is that your problem may be hardware-related. |
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