On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >> > I got burned by this one also. re-emerge all the xf86 module stuff for > your keyboard, etc. I've got it all in my module-rebuild -C rebuild > list. Once you do that you'll likely be OK. > > You''ll either want to ssh in to do this or you might want to reboot, > modifying your boot kernel line adding gentoo=nox to not start X at > all, re-emerge and then start X to test.
I haven't completely done this, but I did enter the 'gentoo=nox' to my kernel line and I got the command prompt. Thank you SO much for this! You may not know it, but Santa just gave me another present! :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
