David, What version of kde did you upgrade to? I also recently upgraded to kde2.2.2 Ron On Friday 11 January 2002 10:32, you wrote:

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I just had my Suse 7.3 running on a IBM T20 thinkpad lock up on me. I didn't have that much going on, but the strange part was that as soon as the system froze, bot the scroll lock and caps lock button started blinking. They continued blinking until I did a hard reset. Very strange

I've been experiencing a similar problem for the last week or so but on a desktop w/ first generation athlon processor.

Sometimes -as you described- 2 keyboard lights flash and the machine stops accepting all keyboard/mouse input, I have to hard reset.

Currently my hard drive light is on (constant) even though I'm really not doing anything. This starts a few minutes after I start the machine, at first I thought it was something like updatedb but that doesn't seem to be it.

I'm going to investigate my cabling this weekend. The only other thing I can see could be causing this is the most recent kde upgrade.

best of luck to both of us

dh

-- Ron Joffe rjoffe@yahoo.com

Well it did it again last night. I had left the machine for about 1/2 hour with everything running (all my apps that is). When I came back to it, the screen had shut down (as it always does even with my power stuff disabled) that could be the monitor though. Anyway, I came back, and moved my mouse which startred the monitor up, but everything was frozen hard. This time the Caps Lock and Scroll lock were on, but not blinking. So there is something going on inside, If a mouse movement can trigger the monitor to come out of sleep, it doesn't seem like this is a bios, but a software issue, maybee as Jostein had mentioned with X The list of apps that were running are: Kmail Gkrellm Ymessenger Mozilla (latest & greatest) VMware (2 win2k sessions) xconsole That's about it. My first choice would be that vmware is causing me grief. Anyone have similar situation? Thanks, Ron On Friday 11 January 2002 20:10, you wrote:

On Friday 11 January 2002 07:43 am, Ron Joffe wrote:

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David,

What version of kde did you upgrade to? I also recently upgraded to kde2.2.2

kde 2.2.2 from the SuSE site (dated jan 4, 2002) mantel kernel 2.4.16-21

It's really too soon for me to be blaming kde but that was my only recent upgrade (more than a week). Currently I'm wondering if it might be a power management conflict. Normally I use the on off switch for power management but it seems like I had some unexpected settings in that area.

I'll keep you posted

dh

-- Ron Joffe rjoffe@yahoo.com

I'll have to see if there is anything enables in the laptop bios. It would be a real bummer if I couldn't shut it off anymore. Ron On Saturday 12 January 2002 16:31, you wrote:

On Saturday 12 January 2002 07:10 am, Ron Joffe wrote:

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Well it did it again last night. I had left the machine for about 1/2 hour with everything running (all my apps that is). When I came back to it, the screen had shut down (as it always does even with my power stuff disabled) that could be the monitor though. Anyway, I came back, and moved my mouse which startred the monitor up, but everything was frozen hard.

This time the Caps Lock and Scroll lock were on, but not blinking. So there is something going on inside, If a mouse movement can trigger the monitor to come out of sleep, it doesn't seem like this is a bios, but a software issue, maybee as Jostein had mentioned with X

The list of apps that were running are: Kmail Gkrellm Ymessenger Mozilla (latest & greatest) VMware (2 win2k sessions) xconsole

That's about it. My first choice would be that vmware is causing me grief. Anyone have similar situation?

my symptoms were like yours, blinking caps and scroll lock plus my hard drive light showed constant drive activity, even after logging out, telling the machine to shut down, and all services being terminated.

I haven't got vmware on my machine, So that may not be it. I do run kmail and gkrellm but feel they are unlikely candidates.

I dissabled apm in yast2 (etc/rc.config) and bios yesterday and haven't had the lockup or hard disk always accessing problem yet in the few hours of uptime since. Unfortunately my box does not recognize the power off switch any more so I have to boot into BeOS in order to shut down my machine. (I prefer this to hitting my ups switch)

It does seem that when I did have the problem it would show up within the first 15 minutes of logging into kde

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kde 2.2.2 from the SuSE site (dated jan 4, 2002) mantel kernel 2.4.16-21

It's really too soon for me to be blaming kde but that was my only recent upgrade (more than a week). Currently I'm wondering if it might be a power management conflict. Normally I use the on off switch for power management but it seems like I had some unexpected settings in that area.

I'll keep you posted

dh

-- Ron Joffe rjoffe@yahoo.com

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If I remember, this is the Stinkpad? I have an A22p and have had this flashing lights once or twice. I also run VMware. But the only hard lockups besides that were a) before I added disableapic,and b) when I have an AdaptecSCSI PCMCIA in (1460 or 1480) and it went into suspend. Even though I set apm to deal with scsi card (shut it down first) I still get that, so cannot leave my SCSI in except when I use it. On Saturday, 12 January 2002 9:10, you wrote:

Well it did it again last night. I had left the machine for about 1/2 hour with everything running (all my apps that is). When I came back to it, the screen had shut down (as it always does even with my power stuff disabled) that could be the monitor though. Anyway, I came back, and moved my mouse which startred the monitor up, but everything was frozen hard.

This time the Caps Lock and Scroll lock were on, but not blinking. So there is something going on inside, If a mouse movement can trigger the monitor to come out of sleep, it doesn't seem like this is a bios, but a software issue, maybee as Jostein had mentioned with X

The list of apps that were running are: Kmail Gkrellm Ymessenger Mozilla (latest & greatest) VMware (2 win2k sessions) xconsole

That's about it. My first choice would be that vmware is causing me grief. Anyone have similar situation?

Thanks,

Ron

On Friday 11 January 2002 20:10, you wrote:

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On Friday 11 January 2002 07:43 am, Ron Joffe wrote:

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David,

What version of kde did you upgrade to? I also recently upgraded to kde2.2.2

kde 2.2.2 from the SuSE site (dated jan 4, 2002) mantel kernel 2.4.16-21

It's really too soon for me to be blaming kde but that was my only recent upgrade (more than a week). Currently I'm wondering if it might be a power management conflict. Normally I use the on off switch for power management but it seems like I had some unexpected settings in that area.

I'll keep you posted

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