We had a similar problems with our thinkpads t2[0-2]. It went away when we stopped running gpm while running X.
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Now that I'm using my T21 more and more, I'm leaving it on for > longer periods of time. Not as long as I'd like, though, > since it seems to do a hard hang sometimes. At least twice > I've noticed that it happened when xscreensaver was running > the greynetic hack; that's what was frozen on the screen. > > BIOS functions seem unaffected; the keyboard light, speaker > volume and mute, idle screen power-off, and similar things > are still accessible and running. Once the screen goes > dark, though, nothing will paint it when a keyboard or mouse > action happens; I'm not even sure it powers back up (but I think > it does). > > The only way I've found to get out of this is to hold the > power key down for 10+ seconds -- which blows away any > work-in-progress, of course. :-( > > Has anyone here encountered anything like this? > > On a brighter note, VMware rocks. :-) > -- Global Village Idiot Email: jem@sunsite^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmetalab^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hibiblio.org http://ibiblio.org/jem/ ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************