On Monday 29 July 2013 15.47.49 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > > Would you expect a crash in this situation? > > > > I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on > > battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to > > leave my place for a bit and when I got back the laptop had gone into > > hiberantion. > > > > Then when getting home, I booted it and found Banshee playing, and the > > screen all scrambled impossibly to see anything (large sheets of > > colourful squares). > > > > The only way to get out of this mess was to open a console and enter > > reboot as root. Is it some bad handling in Banshee/KDE/Fedora or > > something? > > I cautiously offer that it might have been the screen saver kicking in, but > in general video doesn't get properly initialized after hibernate. On many > machines it doesn't need to have the video hardware reset, so it doesn't > matter, and I'm told that using a vendor driver may solve the problem. > That's information, not suggestion, treat with care. > > One thing which may work, and has worked for me, is to switch to a text mode > console, and instead of logging in or anything, switch back to the graphic > screen. I think this resets the video back to a sane graphic mode, but > that's a guess. Another thing which has worked for me on some laptops is to > switch to a text mode before doing the hibernate. That implies you know > you're going to do it. Sometimes killing and restarting X will fix the > issue. > > May some of this be useful, these are tricks which have worked for me or > friends, hardware and drivers differ enough for me to help any more. Ah ... This all sounds familiar. Some of it I've resorted to before. I'm so rusty using desktop Linux =) /Martin S -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
