On 12/25/11 16:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > 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. Yeah, *know* I shouldn't do that! :-) However, you just "taught" me something I didn't know. > > 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.)
Thanks for this! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
