Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:20:26 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: John Murphy <john253@crosswinds.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powersave when exiting X-windows Message-ID: <20001004232026.A397@home.com> In-Reply-To: <hvamts8ve09g0353p7e7o7inlr1medvq3r@4ax.com>; from john253@crosswinds.net on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:46:57PM %2B0100 References: <20001002103839.B421@home.com> <hvamts8ve09g0353p7e7o7inlr1medvq3r@4ax.com>
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:46:57PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> wrote: > > >Hi everyone, > > > >I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to why my monitor goes into > >power-save mode when I try to exit X-windows. It also does the same thing > >when I try to switch to a virtual terminal. There are no error messages that > >I can find. Even capturing the Xserver output does not reveal any clues. > >The box itself is not locked up. I can still telnet in and everything seems > >to be working fine, but to regain power on my monitor I am forced to hit > >ctrl-alt-del. This same machine works fine in Linux. > >Is there something that I am doing wrong? > > Hi, > Many monitors appear to be in power-save mode when in fact they have shut down > because they can't display a particular mode. Instead of pressing ctrl-alt-del > try switching the monitor off for a minute or so, and then see if the display > comes back when you switch it on again. > > Are you using the exact same version of XFree86 under SuSE? I have tried the above to no avail. When I tried to turn my monitor back on, it just made sounds as if it was trying to display something, and then it shut down again. If I telnet into my computer, there are no X windows processes running. I should just be in a console. I am just at a loss. Victor Cardona To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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