On 05/07/10 04:13, Christoph Rissner wrote:
Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back,
What about suspending again, perhaps waiting a few seconds, and resuming again? Does that have a chance to help? (It helps me on my Intel card's graphic glitches sometimes. I can do it easily because closing the laptop lid causes suspend, and opening it causes wake-up...)
I have a Pineview Integreted Controller (i915) in my eeepc and this happened to me twice (in the last month) after closing the lid, but I just issue "xset dpms force off" without suspending.
please inform us, what does "xset dpms force off" do? And for what circumstances/purpose do you use it? I looked in the man-page of 'xset' and found it, but I wasn't sure enough to risk using it in case it did something I didn't know how to get out of* *like blanking my screen (see "off" + mentioning suspending), or like turning on "DPMS Energy Star Features" (see man-page, "Setting these values implicitly enables the DPMS features."), or something. Please tell us :-) and did you mean -it's a preventative measure to screen-glitches? -it's a remedy for screen glitches after they happen? -it's an alternative to suspending for the purpose of saving power? -... sorry :0) -Isaac