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On 12/25/2011 01:08 PM, CJoeB 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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I had similar and similarly-weird problems caused by a faulty video |
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card. After removing it, I could see that the capacitors were |
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domed/cracked and the card obviously got fried somehow... it still |
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worked most of the time, but was unstable (especially coming out of |
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power-saving it would exhibit problems or freeze the system). I could |
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usually still SSH in from another machine and do a proper shutdown, but |
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not always. |
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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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Maybe part of the world update was x11 stuff and the @x11-module-rebuild |
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set didn't get emerged yet. |
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