Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot SOLVED

2012-01-16 Thread goossens
In case someone finds it useful, the problem was that the intel drivers with debian stable are not new enough to cope with Second Gen Sandybridge integrated graphics. Solution to this thread was therefore to add backports to sources.list, upgrade the kernel, upgrade any firmware that the newer ker

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2012-01-02 Thread goossens
Hi Again Following instructions from From: Scott Ferguson (Thanks!) >edit the default entry (so the change is temporary) and append >"acpi=force"[*1] >*If* it manages to boot after that - open a shell and run:- >$ dmesg | grep -i 'fail\|error\|warn\|not\|acpi\|conflict' PS -- No custom Kern

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-30 Thread goossens
Hi All I have tried a differnt keyboard (an USB and a different ps2) and makes no difference to the problem, so I guess it is a graphics driver issue. I have followed advice from all the very helpful people who have responded. I tried apci=off and reboot=bios and they make no difference. If

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-21 Thread goossens
>s I said, the first step is to simply buy a cheapo modern PS/2 or USB >keyboard and see if the problem goes away. If it does, try a USB >adapter on the Model M. If that works, great. If not, more >troubleshooting awaits you. :( OK. btw I have usb mouse. Machine only has a single ps2 port, c

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-20 Thread goossens
On 12/19/2011 6:01 PM, gooss...@rsc.anu.edu.au wrote: > >> I have a i7 quad core 2600K, running current squeeze 6.0.3 with default >> Gnome installation. ... >> I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard. > > The quick fix is to simply swap your high quality clack-itty dinosaur KB > with its inbuilt 8042

Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-19 Thread goossens
I hope I am sending to the right place. I really have no idea how to deal with this. I'll have to describe the problem in detail, since I cannot assign it to a package or anything. I have tried searching for a similar problem but can't find one. I am not a complete newcomer, but I am not much o

Re: text mode virtual terminal auto lock

2003-03-12 Thread Kristof Goossens
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:48:58AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > I have looked around for a screen lock > for the text mode virtual terminal > that activates automatically after > a certain amount of idle time > but could not find even one. > > Does anyone know of any? vlock does the locking part