From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 21:18:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DA637B502 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miller.local ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001005041849.HSZL29897.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@miller.local>; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:18:49 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by miller.local (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id XAA00400; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:20:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:20:26 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: John Murphy Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powersave when exiting X-windows Message-ID: <20001004232026.A397@home.com> References: <20001002103839.B421@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from john253@crosswinds.net on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:46:57PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:46:57PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > "Victor R. Cardona" 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