Cannot restart after sleep

Dick Goldberg

If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it. I ge the
impression that the computer comes alive but that the monitor will not
display. The indicator lamp on the front will not change to the proper
color. If I reboot, everything is running normally, despite an abnormal
shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

Luis Santos

On Nov 11, 10:08 pm, **** Goldberg <> wrote:
> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it. I ge the
> impression that the computer comes alive but that the monitor will not
> display. The indicator lamp on the front will not change to the proper
> color. If I reboot, everything is running normally, despite an abnormal
> shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

Try press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart the X-Server.

David aka Rebel

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:08:17 -0700, **** Goldberg wrote:

> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it. I ge the
> impression that the computer comes alive but that the monitor will not
> display. The indicator lamp on the front will not change to the proper
> color. If I reboot, everything is running normally, despite an abnormal
> shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

Is the keyboard still working. If it is try alt-ctrl-F1 to get out to
the console then try alt-ctrl-F7 to get back to gui. If that doesn't
work, ie it is still blank in gui, ctrl-alt-backspace will restart the
xserver. Log back in and turn off the sleep mode. You haven't said what
gui or distro that you use so I can't tell you how to do that.

David aka Rebel

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:08:17 -0700, **** Goldberg wrote:

> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it. I ge the
> impression that the computer comes alive but that the monitor will not
> display. The indicator lamp on the front will not change to the proper
> color. If I reboot, everything is running normally, despite an abnormal
> shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

Is the keyboard still working. If it is try alt-ctrl-F1 to get out to
the console then try alt-ctrl-F7 to get back to gui. If that doesn't
work, ie it is still blank in gui, ctrl-alt-backspace will restart the
xserver. Log back in and turn off the sleep mode. You haven't said what
gui or distro that you use so I can't tell you how to do that.

johnny bobby bee

**** Goldberg wrote:
> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it.
<snip>
> shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

Don't put it to sleep. Or shut it down.

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Mark Hobley

**** Goldberg <****> wrote:

> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it.
> Can someone please suggest a solution.

In the computer BIOS settings, there is an option for video blanking mode. Set
this to "blank screen".

Regards,

Mark.

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Broderick Crawford ililililil

**** Goldberg wrote:
> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it. I ge the
> impression that the computer comes alive but that the monitor will not
> display. The indicator lamp on the front will not change to the proper
> color. If I reboot, everything is running normally, despite an abnormal
> shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

That happened to my father. We had to bury him.

Broderick Crawford ililililil

**** Goldberg wrote:
> If I leave my machine and it goes to sleep I cannot revive it. I ge the
> impression that the computer comes alive but that the monitor will not
> display. The indicator lamp on the front will not change to the proper
> color. If I reboot, everything is running normally, despite an abnormal
> shutdown. Can someone please suggest a solution.

That happened to my father. We had to bury him.