From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:41:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF7C2D2.9060401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jd862j$lqq$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On 12/25/11 16:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, 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.
>
> You shouldn't do that. There's the SysRq key combination to safely exit
all programs, umount the filesystem and reboot.
Yeah, *know* I shouldn't do that! :-) However, you just "taught" me
something I didn't know.
>
> You can Google for it. Wikipedia also has an article:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
>
> (The "SysRq" key is usually the "PrintScrn" key.)
Thanks for this!
Regards,
Colleen
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-25 19:08 [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle CJoeB
2011-12-25 19:08 ` Dan Cowsill
2011-12-25 19:28 ` CJoeB
2011-12-26 9:44 ` Mick
2011-12-27 4:22 ` Stroller
2011-12-25 19:20 ` Michael Hampicke
2011-12-25 20:08 ` Mick
2011-12-25 21:36 ` CJoeB
2011-12-25 20:51 ` CJoeB
2011-12-25 21:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-25 21:21 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-26 19:54 ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-26 21:07 ` Colleen Beamer
2011-12-25 19:27 ` Mark Knecht
2011-12-25 20:56 ` CJoeB
2011-12-25 20:05 ` pk
2011-12-25 21:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-26 0:41 ` Colleen Beamer [this message]
2011-12-26 1:10 ` Dale
2011-12-26 2:23 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-26 2:37 ` Dale
2011-12-26 19:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
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