On January 20, 2006 10:41, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
> Hi all,
> A)
> I left my computer unattended for a while, and doing so the screen
> usually goes black (Mandrakelinux 10.0)
> So is the case for 2006 too (freshly installed today),  but bow I could
> not bring the screen back to life. It seemed to be frozen,
> no muse movemenets, mouseclicks or depressoin of keys had any effect.
> So, I had to turn to the reset button, which usually is a practice that
> should be avoided.
> Any ideas?
...

I had that problem with an older Dell machine, with both 10.0 and 10.1. IIRC, 
I had to:

1. Boot with acpi=off 
2. Disable power saving options in the BIOS
3. Disable power saving options built into my monitor

Something in all the power saving featurse on the older computer (built before 
the acpi standard was even invented) was turning off the monitor and/or the 
video card when idle for some period of time, and Mandrake didn't know how to 
tell it to turn back on.

-- 
Ron
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net

Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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