I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem. Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases. What can I do to prevent this from recurring? dj tuchler
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem.
Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases.
What can I do to prevent this from recurring?
Since you're using the mouse, you're also probably running X. Have you tried just killing and restarting the X server. Try "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill the current X server, which init should then restart. Maybe your mouse will reappear. It can't hurt, and if it works prevents a reboot. Jim
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:59:29 -0800 (PST) Jim Cunning <jcunning@cts.com> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem.
Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases.
What can I do to prevent this from recurring?
Since you're using the mouse, you're also probably running X. Have you tried just killing and restarting the X server. Try "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill the current X server, which init should then restart. Maybe your mouse will reappear. It can't hurt, and if it works prevents a reboot.
Jim
Another thing to try is turning off gpm, general purpose mouse for the console. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
If this is a new install on "new" hardware (first time Linux), then some BIOSs have a problem with pnp settings in the BIOS. This problem usually expresses itself in the clock, mouse and keyboard. To check, go into bios settings from power up and make sure that the "pnp OS" is set to "no" or something relating to no! There is one BIOS that has the question reversed so be careful (double negative etc)! There is an artice about this on SuSE support database, under PNP I think. Peter On Thursday 28 March 2002 1:07 am, you wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:59:29 -0800 (PST)
Jim Cunning <jcunning@cts.com> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem.
Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases.
What can I do to prevent this from recurring?
Since you're using the mouse, you're also probably running X. Have you tried just killing and restarting the X server. Try "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill the current X server, which init should then restart. Maybe your mouse will reappear. It can't hurt, and if it works prevents a reboot.
Jim
Another thing to try is turning off gpm, general purpose mouse for the console.
jcunning@cts.com wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem.
Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases.
What can I do to prevent this from recurring?
Since you're using the mouse, you're also probably running X. Have you tried just killing and restarting the X server. Try "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill the current X server, which init should then restart. Maybe your mouse will reappear. It can't hurt, and if it works prevents a reboot.
Jim
Look in the kernel docs under the power management section. There is a compile option that relates to this problem. JHS
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