From: Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:08:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADsG24qO69bUrZwHRvtMAyFYOaur_Qd12QQeqF_kTRSRneB1cg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EF77494.4080606@gmail.com>
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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?
As to your current predicament, I would give a livecd a try and see if the
keyboard and mouse work in that.
What I'm driving at here is that your problem may be hardware-related.
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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 [this message]
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
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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