hmmm, usually ctrl-alt f1 would fix this. Sine that isn't working, have u tried switching to external vga and back. That did the trick for me on Dell Latitude C610's. On 9/9/08, Joe Tseng <joe_tseng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I inherited an ancient Dell Latitude C840 and recently installed CentOS 5.2 > on it. It worked fine for the most part, but when I left it overnight and > came back the next morning, the screen blacked out and wouldn't come back > unless I did a hard reset. Even though I turned off all the power > management settings and left it set like a desktop, the next morning after > that it still blacked out. I thought maybe it'd come back if I switched > from X to a virtual text console, but that didn't do the trick. Has anyone > seen this and what do I do to fix it? > > tia, > > - Joe > > _________________________________________________________________ > Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows > Live. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos