[GRLUG] screen not recovering

[Eric Beversluis]

On further peering, it looks like the right stuff comes to the screen
when I jiggle the mouse but extremely faintly. I can just see the dialog
box to log back in and once I manage that, I can just faintly see the
Gnome desktop.

It looks from Googling that ctrl-alt-backspace is supposed to restart
Gnome from within Gnome. But that doesn't seem to work when I try it
from with (normally appearing) Gnome. And from what I see on line, one
is supposed to close all open programs first.  Ideally I need a way to
recover the Gnome desktop without losing all my open apps and unsaved
material.

@Michael:
Ctrl-Alt-F1 brings me to a login screen. Can I get back to Gnome from
there without shutting down and restarting? 

Thanks.

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 09:10 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> I've seen similar on Arch Linux lately. I finally discovered that using
> Ctrl-Alt-F(N) keys to switch between virtual terminals got things
> working for me again.
> 
> In the process of discovering a workaround, I also saw something really
> weird...the blinking cursor of a text VT, with Xorg's mouse cursor drawn
> and live.
> 
> I think it's representative of a bug in the kernel's new 'modesetting'
> behavior. I don't know the details on how that's supposed to work, but I
> believe it has to do with userland applications being able to ask the
> kernel to change display resolutions. (Replacing, I guess, things like
> svgalib and FrameBuffer apps.)
> 
> On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 08:22 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> > Lately a few times my screen has seemed to go out on me--mostly, I
> > think, after the computer has been sitting and has locked and dimmed.
> > When I come back and use the mouse/touchpad to get to the login screen,
> > it does not respond. If I power down the machine and reboot, it comes up
> > fine, so I think it's a software rather than hardware problem. Any ideas
> > about how I might troubleshoot/fix this?
> > 
> > Running openSUSE 11.2 on lenove 3000 N100. All software is updated.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > EB
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 



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