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On 12/25/2011 09:08 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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You shouldn't do that. There's the SysRq key combination to safely exit |
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all programs, umount the filesystem and reboot. |
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You can Google for it. Wikipedia also has an article: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key |
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(The "SysRq" key is usually the "PrintScrn" key.) |
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