Re: No way out of blank screen
I've never seen anything like that other than problems similar to that
like with powermanagement on PC's, which is the first thing i disable when
i see it enabled on a machine to correct a problem. You may have a
problem with your framebuffer, but for the mean time you may want to
comment out in:
/etc/rc.d/rc.M
/bin/setterm -blank 15
That's the standard timeout time that I've seen on other distributions,
I've disabled this when I'd have machines that would hang and lock and I
couldn't 'turn on' the monitor to see the kernel panics or other errors to
diagnose the problem. If you're worried about your screen possibly look
for a screensaver or turn the monitor off would probably work just as
well.
Regards,
Brian
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Harry Edmon wrote:
> I am running Debian 2.1 on a Cycle board with a cgsix frame buffer.
> Occasionally when in power saving mode (i.e. the screen is blank), the
> X server will not come out of that mode no matter what key I press. I
> have to shut the system down and turn it off to get the screen to come
> back. Anyone know of a fix?
> --
> Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: harry@atmos.washington.edu
> (206) 543-0547 FAX: (206) 543-0308
> Dept of Atmospheric Sciences
> University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
Reply to: