Buran Ayuthia wrote:
I get a blank screen but it is active. You can type in your name and password and still run things, but you will not be able to see what you are doing.
Do you have a CRT you can test against? It sounds like a monitor settings issue to me.
On that subject: does anyone have any information about what settings come from where? I'm having a hell of a job persuading my desktop to use settings from my xorg.conf, and the options in the Gnome Screen Resolution dialog I have no idea where they come from. The boot splash screen is configured in /etc/usplash.conf (you have to rebuild the boot image after changing it) and I have to set that to 640x480 to get my boot sequence to show. The settings used for the login prompt come from somewhere else - in fact I find it increasingly hard to see what relevance the resolution settings in xorg.conf have at all....
This seemed to change between 7.04 and 7.10; 8.04 hasn't made it any better or worse. Like many people I have a panel that needs 1400x1050 which is a pain to configure properly.
If I let my laptop sit for 15-20 minutes, the laptop monitor will turn off. When I come back to activate it, the screen lights up but is blank. I then have to switch to another terminal window (control-alt-F6), come back (control-alt-F7), and move the mouse. Sometimes I have to do this a few times before the window comes back. I have not checked to see if this is now working or not since they updated the nvidia-glx-new package sometime during the past few hours.
I've seen similar effects on Linux and Windows; I've never really understood how the transition from standby to normal can be so complicated!
In my office I have Linux (primary) and Windows desktops alongside each other, using synergy to share the keyboard and mouse. When the Windows screen goes to sleep, I can't wake it by moving my mouse across to that screen using synergy (I know it's going across, it just doesn't wake the screen). I have to move a mouse physically connected to that box (luckily I have a KVM which makes it fairly easy).
I guess it's not as simple as I think it should be.
What are your thoughts on Firefox 3?
None of my plugins work! I can't see much different to be honest.
One other question, I am not for sure if this is manly Hardy related or if the issue is in Flash, but Firefox/Konqueror sometimes hangs when it runs into Flash. My laptop would start heating up until I kill the process. Does anyone else have this problem? I am currently running the 64-bit version of Kubuntu on Hardy so it is using Flash through nspluginwrapper.
I had this problem in 7.10; I think it is likely a problem with Flash not FF (maybe 32-bit on 64-bit). I'd love to have a solution to this, sorry to hear that 8.04 isn't going to bring one.
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