On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:02:59 +0100 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said:
> I've been running e17 under Xubuntu 14.04 on my old Dell D810 laptop for > just under a year. so what did you CHANGE on your system that this suddenly happened. you are runing e17... that means you definitely havent updated e. e17 just hasn't changed. we don't update/maintain it... so... something else changed. some system update started breaking x screensaver behavior? logically speaking... it can't be a change in e as it didn't change. :) if no software changed (no system updates as well as no e).. then one can only conclude... that maybe your hw is now on the way out? but a sudden change in behavior doesn't simply happen on its own. > No serious problems until two days ago the screen suddenly went black. > Normally this is the screensaver, after 15 mins inactivity, but in this > case I was in the middle of typing. I could not find any keystroke to > re-awaken the screen. The system was apparently still active, as it was > downloading a file I had requested, so I waited until the disk ligh > stopped flashing, then held down the power button to force a shutdown. > > When I restarted, the screen prompted me for Ubuntu in the normal way, > let me log in, and started Enlightenment...and then went black as > before. I forced power-off and left it. > > The day before this happened, I had moved the mouse to wake up the > machine from the screensaver in the normal way, and got an unusual > pop-up message that I had woken the screensaver too quickly, and did I > want to change some settings (that it described in terms I did not > recognise). I clicked No and carried on working (so I don't have a > screenshot of the message, sorry). > > Today I powered up the machine normally and worked perfectly OK for > about 2 hours. I went to get coffee and came back to find the screen > black and irretrievable again. > > Before I start investigating hardware...does anyone recognise these > symptoms and have any advice? I checked the temperature sensor and fan > but they seem to be working correctly. The battery in all cases was well > charged, or the power was plugged in. > > It may be nothing to do with E and the screensaver, but I'd like to > eliminate that before I start digging deeper. > > ///Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. > GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that > you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. > Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. > https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
