Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
Bill Spatz wrote:
On Sunday 22 January 2006 17:08 pm, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
Has anyone experienced screen-freeze after leaving the computer idle
for some hours?
It happened to me twice. First I thought it might be some hangup in
the screensaver, so I disabled it.
But now the same thing happened without the screen saver in play. Is
this an X11 problem?
It never happened under Mandrake 10.0, and I would consider this to
be a rather serious problem.
In fact so serious that I am contemplating returning to 10.0, waiting
for an improved 2006.
Any thoughts?
Per-Anton
PA
Don't know if you have fixed your problem, but I *had* the same. I
finally watched my boot messages and noticed that the ATI module was
not installing because the kernel source was not installed.
I installed the kernel source, rebooted, it installed the ATI module
my box needed and have had no problems since.
Bill
I see. Yes, the problem still occurs, from time to time. But what you
are telling me is
for specialists to know, I would not have a clue what to actually do
based on what you say here.
First, ATI are just 3 letters to me, what's behind them I don't know.
Never heard of this
till I installed 2006 and started having these problems.
What is the kernel source? Is it the source code that makes up the kernel?
Does this mean that the kernel is compiled at boot time? Maybe not, but
here you see
the struggles of a non specialist. To be honest, I would not have a clue
what to do about this,
since I know nothing about the kernel source, ATI or anything connected
with that.
ATI is a company that build graphic chips and cards. NVidia is the other
main supplier of graphic chipsets, what I think he is saying is that in
his case the
video card drivers were not getting loaded, because the dkms (a tool to
insert driver modules into the kernel at boot time, developed with Dell
computer and 'the community' named dell kernel module service or some
such, 'dkms' for short) could not correctly configure the module because
it need some files that are included in the kernel source RPM that would
match his running kernel.
In my opinion the run of the mill user should not have to know about
such things,
they should just work.
in a perfect world, and on the computers I build, they do just work.
even in all those other Operating systems, you have to be able to
configure your hardware, or someone has done it for you, and it wasn't
M$, it was the hardware manufacturers.
It seems that it was a bit too hasty to install 2006, it gives me more
trouble than I am able to handle,
so I'm out on a limb here. Sorry.
PA
sorry I we have not helped sooner (or has someone, and I missed it)
it's always going to be difficult to fix intermittent problems, if we
can figure out what is causing it it will be much easier to fix.
how about you copy and paste the results, as root, without the quotes,
all on one line "uname -a" typed in a text console.
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