On 12/25/2011 01:08 PM, CJoeB 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.
I had similar and similarly-weird problems caused by a faulty video card. After removing it, I could see that the capacitors were domed/cracked and the card obviously got fried somehow... it still worked most of the time, but was unstable (especially coming out of power-saving it would exhibit problems or freeze the system). I could usually still SSH in from another machine and do a proper shutdown, but not always. > 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. Maybe part of the world update was x11 stuff and the @x11-module-rebuild set didn't get emerged yet.
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