On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, CJoeB wrote:
Happy Holidays, Everyone,
To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an
issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop).
Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the
monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the
screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get
the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power
button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today.
You shouldn't do that. There's the SysRq key combination to safely exit
all programs, umount the filesystem and reboot.
You can Google for it. Wikipedia also has an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
(The "SysRq" key is usually the "PrintScrn" key.)
