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
