I have a Dell Latitude E6410 with nVidia graphics, using the nouveau driver in F17 and gnome-shell.
When the machine is docked and using the remote display, all is well until the screen blanker times out. After that, I'm unable to wake the screen up. Opening the lid doesn't help (not too surprising, given that the main screen is set to be off when the remote is attached); switching to a VC doesn't help (which is surprising). The keyboard still works, so I can blindly switch to a VC and reboot, but it's not workable to have to reboot after every 10 minutes of idle time.
I created a second userid and tried working with that, and the problem does not recur there, so it apparently has something to do with the configuration of my main userid. I had at one point installed the weather extension and the system monitor extension, but they were problematic so I deleted them (before I tried the experiment with the other userid). That fixed a problem where the screen wouldn't wake up even when undocked, but hasn't fixed this.
So any idea what I should look for in my userid's configuration files to fix this?
TIA.
On 10/12/2012 11:32 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
So any idea what I should look for in my userid's configuration files to fix this?
Have you tried comparing the two config files? I don't know which one's the important one, and I don't use Gnome so I can't check it for you but I'm sure somebody here will know. Also, does this happen when you're not docked? The way you write suggests that it doesn't, but it's always best to be sure.
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 14:56 -0400, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/12/2012 11:32 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
So any idea what I should look for in my userid's configuration files to fix this?
Have you tried comparing the two config files? I don't know which one's the important one, and I don't use Gnome so I can't check it for you but I'm sure somebody here will know. Also, does this happen when you're not docked? The way you write suggests that it doesn't, but it's always best to be sure.
[Sorry not to respond sooner, been traveling...]
Well, I posted here hoping to find out what files I need to look in. I went through the various config menus and I didn't see anything that was obviously either the culprit or different.
The problem did happen undocked until I removed the gnome-shell weather app (at least, I think that's what did it). Now it only happens when docked.
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