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For some reason my system must be going into a state of some sort after being idle for a period of time. Pressing the space bar or moving the mouse will not wake up the system. I end up shutting it down and rebooting using the recovery mode. I checked the power settings and it is set to never sleep.
It is a problem with Ubuntu, I had that too time ago with it. The splash at boot was also terrible.
Then, I installed Debian and now, by far, all machines works. I think it was a problem with the Xorg and modules.
Distribution: Switched to regualr Ubuntu, because I don't like KDE4, at all. Looks like vista on crack.....
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Hi, after thinking about it for a bit, I believe you might have a hardware problem. If your box gets too hot it might act like this. Particularly the video card. I once had a fan on a video card fail and ran into some problems like this. The way I checked was to take the sides off the box, put a large boxy floor fan right up against the computer, and then see if the problem reoccurred. You might want to swap out the power supply too, as a flaky power supply might be the culprit too. Have you tried different desktops to see if the same things happens ? My money is on overheating though.
Hi, after thinking about it for a bit, I believe you might have a hardware problem. If your box gets too hot it might act like this. Particularly the video card. I once had a fan on a video card fail and ran into some problems like this. The way I checked was to take the sides off the box, put a large boxy floor fan right up against the computer, and then see if the problem reoccurred. You might want to swap out the power supply too, as a flaky power supply might be the culprit too. Have you tried different desktops to see if the same things happens ? My money is on overheating though.
Let us know...
Good luck with that...
David
Long time ago, I had the same problem with an old video card and ubuntu. I think it was an ati one. I'd bet it comes with xset ...
we'll know more about this config.
Let's not go there to the blue screen, had 'nuff of that. Video card is describes as intel82845g/gl[brookdale g]/ge chipset integrated VGA for whatever that means. It's on the MB.
Let's not go there to the blue screen, had 'nuff of that. Video card is describes as intel82845g/gl[brookdale g]/ge chipset integrated VGA for whatever that means. It's on the MB.
I have on one machine with that video card I recall. I can send you the Xorg.conf that works perfectly (no problem). The difference is mb. that I have Debian Stable.
Last edited by frenchn00b; 01-21-2008 at 12:38 PM.
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