From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Retho-0005qi-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:26:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E72AC21C110; Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EFE21C101 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcha6 with SMTP id a6so7414989qch.40 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:24:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=lxNismI4hFYxyXabv5DK4q7hhvAaCbQ68aSfpv1dZyo=; b=vMNe0gZw8XQn3DC52J49gkyhN4qincNXGP7j8WBRRv3vq33YVCGpnW1l1V6dOZ67dN 4F4IqXBTBOBwc4wJgQM/G05ENex+jX52MtajVLkB8ikVhEOie8jeO6pPFPxdncLubI41 B5mMWKYLD9AVjsG8B3zmQj+T0Aql69opEYAV8= Received: by 10.229.78.143 with SMTP id l15mr8277321qck.84.1324841054415; Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.11] (bas1-hamilton02-1176408411.dsl.bell.ca. [70.30.145.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o8sm25070200qaj.0.2011.12.25.11.24.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:24:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EF77963.5070608@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:28:35 -0500 From: CJoeB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110602 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle References: <4EF77494.4080606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090508030509030007070606" X-Archives-Salt: 514b1e12-8181-46cd-92a6-c9f1d20891c3 X-Archives-Hash: 74a85b5ab9b89286dc40be420ab09b0b This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090508030509030007070606 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB > wrote: > > Happy Holidays, Everyone, > > To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know > about an > issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). > Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the > monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the > monitor), the > screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I > can get > the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power > button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today. > > Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still > had my > KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or > anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The > computer > booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor > the mouse work. > > Any ideas? > > Regards, > > Colleen > > -- > > Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, > http://counter.li.org > > > > > When the screen locks, is it the whole computer? Can you do a CTRL+F7 > and get to a console? When this happens, the screen is either black (cause the monitor has gone to sleep), black, but I can see my mouse cursor and it will move around if I move my mouse around, or I will have my KDE desktop, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard will work. > > As to your current predicament, I would give a livecd a try and see if > the keyboard and mouse work in that. I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse and the keyboard worked fine. And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer. -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org --------------090508030509030007070606 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy Holidays, Everyone,

To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an
issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop).
Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the
monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the
screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get
the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power
button.  This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today.

Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my
KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or
anything.  So, I held the power button to cause a reboot.  The computer
booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor
the mouse work.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen

--

Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org




When the screen locks, is it the whole computer?  Can you do a CTRL+F7 and get to a console?
When this happens, the screen is either black (cause the monitor has gone to sleep), black, but I can see my mouse cursor and it will move around if I move my mouse around, or I will have my KDE desktop, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard will work.

As to your current predicament, I would give a livecd a try and see if the keyboard and mouse work in that.

I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse and the keyboard worked fine.

And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer.

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Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
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