Fedora crash

[Martin Skjöldebrand]

On Monday 29 July 2013 15.47.49 Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > Would you expect a crash in this situation?
> > 
> > I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on
> > battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to
> > leave my place for a bit and when I got back the laptop had gone into
> > hiberantion.
> > 
> > Then when getting home, I booted it and found Banshee playing, and the
> > screen all scrambled impossibly to see anything (large sheets of
> > colourful squares).
> > 
> > The only way to get out of this mess was to open a console and enter
> > reboot as root. Is it some bad handling in Banshee/KDE/Fedora or
> > something?
> 
> I cautiously offer that it might have been the screen saver kicking in, but
> in general video doesn't get properly initialized after hibernate. On many
> machines it doesn't need to have the video hardware reset, so it doesn't
> matter, and I'm told that using a vendor driver may solve the problem.
> That's information, not suggestion, treat with care.
> 
> One thing which may work, and has worked for me, is to switch to a text mode
> console, and instead of logging in or anything, switch back to the graphic
> screen. I think this resets the video back to a sane graphic mode, but
> that's a guess. Another thing which has worked for me on some laptops is to
> switch to a text mode before doing the hibernate. That implies you know
> you're going to do it. Sometimes killing and restarting X will fix the
> issue.
> 
> May some of this be useful, these are tricks which have worked for me or
> friends, hardware and drivers differ enough for me to help any more.

Ah ...
This all sounds familiar. Some of it I've resorted to before.
I'm so rusty using desktop Linux =)

/Martin S