View Full Version : Unrecoverable Black Screen
Osiris
03-11-2004, 03:43 AM
When I leave the computer for about 5 minutes to say... go to the bathroom, it goes to an un-recoverable black screen. could somebody help me with this problem?
Cuddles
03-11-2004, 03:52 AM
Osiris,
I think I might be able to assist on this one...
First thing, are you running Knoppix from the CD?
If yes, I think it is "Power Management" that is causing this issue. To disable Automatic Power Management, the next time you boot Knoppix...
When you get the Boot: prompt, type the following to disable APM in Knoppix, for that boot
boot: knoppix noapm [enter]
Don't type enter, just press it, and don't type "boot:" thats the boot prompt.
If this works for you, you will need to enter the above command when you boot knoppix again, each time - Knoppix doesn't "carry over" previous configurations between boots, unless you set up a persistant home, or save knoppix configs from within the KMenu -> Knoppix menu entry.
Hope this helps,
Cuddles
Osiris
03-11-2004, 04:11 AM
Unfortunately, no. I installed it to hard disk, but I'm gonna check that out anyways, just in case. I appreciate the attempt though.
rickenbacherus
03-11-2004, 05:25 AM
See if apmd is runnning:
ps aux|grep apm
If so try killing apmd.
kill pid (pid of apmd)
or
killall -9 apmd
You can also disable dpms (energy star features)
xset -dpms
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