Strange monitor behavior
David Timms
dtimms at bigpond.net.au
Tue Jan 24 13:17:28 UTC 2006
Alexander Sukhodolsky wrote:
>I set yum to update my packages and it started downloading all of them. So
>I decided to step away for about 10 minutes. When I came back to check out
>the progress, the screen had dimmed--but the stuff was still working in the
>background--I am running a laptop hooked up to power, btw. But the cursor
>is just as bright as normal. Kind of strange behavior...any ideas?
>BTW--I haven't restarted it yet to check out if it is permanent or not--my
>guess is that it's not. Will update on that just as soon as yum is
>finished.
>
>Alex
>
>
I now know what you mean by this ;-{ My HP compaq nx9000 di this while
yum was downloading about 50M of packages today (Tuesday), I didn't
notice if the screensaver started, but the screen was black when I
looked next during package updating (disk going bezerk). Once the mouse
was moved, the pointer showed up as normal, but quickly (<0.5s) faded
out once movement was stopped. I tried esc, shift, alt-tab, c-a-f1 (tty
were still normal). Switched back to gui, again black, except where
mouse is moved. Waited til disk stopped and then tried c-a-backspace to
exit the session. For the briefest of moments I saw the desktop as it
should have been before going to the gui login screen.
I also got a gnome power manager crash at startup, so I think it is
related to current probs with it, see elsewhere on the list. DaveT.
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