* Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
@ 2011-12-26 19:51 99% ` Paul Hartman
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2011-12-26 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On 12/25/2011 01:08 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.
I had similar and similarly-weird problems caused by a faulty video
card. After removing it, I could see that the capacitors were
domed/cracked and the card obviously got fried somehow... it still
worked most of the time, but was unstable (especially coming out of
power-saving it would exhibit problems or freeze the system). I could
usually still SSH in from another machine and do a proper shutdown, but
not always.
> 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.
Maybe part of the world update was x11 stuff and the @x11-module-rebuild
set didn't get emerged yet.
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