Andrew Greig <[email protected]> writes: > I don't understand whether my computer is sleeping or hibernating or > something else. After booting up into a KDE desktop on OpenSuse 13.1, > after doing nothing for around ten minutes, the screen goes black.
That's probably the X screen saver. See xset(1). > When I move the mouse the computer "wakes up" a bit and the screen > shows the OpenSuse graphic on the right side, and the mouse pointer is > responsive, but nothing else is visible or available. There is no > dialogue box to enter a password to unlock it, nothing at all. Can't help there. Try Ctrl+Alt+F1 and back; try sshing in. > If I have a browser or other app open and close the lid, it restores > quite well on opening the lid again. What is the difference between the > two states, and what config file would I need to look at to resolve the > problem above? Surely closing lid triggers a completely different path, e.g. suspend-to-RAM? > My only solution to date is to CTRL+ALT+F2 su and reboot. Irritating but > not the end of the world. You could restart just X instead. You could look at logs and dmesg and see if any processes are hung. You could even try triggering a suspend-to-RAM and see if the video BIOS tweaks *that* does on restore, are enough to unbugger the video. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
