On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com > <mailto:colleen.bea...@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? When this happens, the screen is either black (cause the monitor has gone to sleep), black, but I can see my mouse cursor and it will move around if I move my mouse around, or I will have my KDE desktop, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard will work. > > As to your current predicament, I would give a livecd a try and see if > the keyboard and mouse work in that.
I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse and the keyboard worked fine. And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer. -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
