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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:56:34 -0500
From: CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
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On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht 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
>>
>>
>>
> I got burned by this one also. re-emerge all the xf86 module stuff for
> your keyboard, etc. I've got it all in my module-rebuild -C rebuild
> list. Once you do that you'll likely be OK.
>
> You''ll either want to ssh in to do this or you might want to reboot,
> modifying your boot kernel line adding gentoo=nox to not start X at
> all, re-emerge and then start X to test.
I haven't completely done this, but I did enter the 'gentoo=nox' to my
kernel line and I got the command prompt. Thank you SO much for this!
You may not know it, but Santa just gave me another present! :-)
Regards,
Colleen
--
Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org