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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:04:44 +0100
From: Juan <piernas@ditec.um.es>
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To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: VGA blank causes hang with 2.4.18
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Richard Gooch escribi?:
> 
>   Hi, all. Here's a perverse problem: when the screen blanks (text
> console) with 2.4.18, the machine hangs. No ping response, no magic
> SysReq response. I didn't have this problem with 2.4.7.
> 
> The command I used to configure screen blanking was:
> setterm -blank 10 -powerdown 0
> 
> This is an Athalon 850 MHz on a Gigabyte GA-7ZM motherboard.
> 
> I managed to waste a few hours chasing this, wondering why the machine
> hung a while after boot. Of course, I first blamed the jobs that were
> started on it soon after boot. Turns out the jobs are not to blame!
> 
>                                 Regards,
> 
>                                         Richard....

I have had a similar problem for a long time with different versions of
Linux kernel. 
This problem rarely occurs and it always does when I am in a text
console. MagicSysRq does not help :-(.

Bye!!!!
-- 
D. Juan Piernas C?novas
Departamento de Ingenier?a y Tecnolog?a de Computadores
Facultad de Inform?tica. Universidad de Murcia
Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34968367657    Fax: +34968364151
email: piernas@ditec.um.es
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http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?search=piernas%40ditec.um.es&op=index

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