Re: laptop screen blanking wont stop!

[Chong Yu Meng]

Could be a font problem -- I had the strangest errors quite recently: I 
added the artwiz fonts, normally meant for Fluxbox (but there is a 
tarball and instructions for loading into Red Hat), and it worked ok for 
a while. Then yesterday, my RH9 box started blanking, and it became 
impossible to load X windows or runlevel 5. I removed the artwiz fonts 
directory and removed it from the font path, and I was able to log in 
again. Previously I had the same problems when I attempted to edit 
fonts.conf by hand and made some elementary syntax errors -- X would not 
load, though it tried repeatedly.

Maybe checking fonts.conf may be a good idea ...?

pascal chong

Douglas J Hunley wrote:

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dep wrote:
 

quoth Douglas J Hunley:
| I can change back to initdefault:3 for debugging.
good. what happens if you do? do you get a usable console?
   

yes. in fact, the console does blank. but it comes back when you press enter

 

| bad XF86Config? define bad...

it is, of course, a subjective thing, and we mustn't be judgmental, but
generally speaking "bad" and "unusable" would coincide in this case.
something else -- is this on battery or ac power?
   

ac power

all power mgmt in the bios is OFF.

looks like this is X related. off for more testing
- -- 
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org

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