On Thursday 03 May 2007 9:17 am, Steve Holdoway wrote:

> If I leave the machine untouched, it starts the usual power saving stuff,
> blanking the screen, etc. Eventually, I end up in a situation where I can
> hit the return key, and see the disk activity light flicker, but no way can
> I get anything on the screen. All I can do is hold my finger on the power
> button until it starts to shut down.
>
Same thing happened on one of my laptops but with Mepis 6.5 there is a KDE GUI 
called kpowersave which enabled various powersaving features to be changed 
and the problem went away. Maybe you could try, if you have kde, running 
kpowersave.

HTH

Rob

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