Still not working properly. I'm logged in via ssh ( so I don't think it's a suspend probloem?? ), but can get no life out of the screen without performing a /etc/init.d/gdm restart
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:43:31 +1200 Rex Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > I've just upgraded my old Tosh lappie to Ubuntu HH. After leaving it to > > it's own devices for a while, it looks like the screensaver ( or some other > > kind of power management ) has kicked in, and the screen is blank. > > > > And is obstinately staying that way, no matter what I do. If I press the > > power button, I'm rewarded by a flash of disk activity, but that's as far > > as it goes! Any idea how to bring it back to life, other than holding the > > power button in for 5 seconds to crash it??? > > so acpid is probably still alive. > > If you can't ssh in, you can try to raise some skinny elephants. OK, > i'll be explicit. > > <alt><SysReq><R> take control of keyboard back from X Beep, and a lot of disk activity > <alt><SysReq><S> Sync (flush data to disk) disk activity > > I like to try an <alt><sys><k> (sends a kill to the current virtual > console), sometime it works. nothing > > <alt><sys><e> tErminate (send SIGTERM to all processes), disk activity > > wait a bit now.... > > <alt><sys><i> kIll (send SIGKILL to all processes), nothing > > <alt><sys><u> Unmount (remount all filesystems read-only) disk light flickers > > <alt><sys><b> reBoot Indeed it does > > > Cheers, Rex This is driving me up the wall! I've removed the screensaver software desperation to no avail! Any other ideas? It's running nvidia proprietarty drivers if that's any help. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
