yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #985 - 7 msgs

[Ron Smith]

Hrmmmm, well, I don't know what to suggest to fix the problem, but, I 
think I can save you from having to do a complete reboot.

If you do a <control><option>backspace it should kill the X server and 
drop you to a prompt. You can then type startx and restart the X server.
If for some reason that doesn't work you can switch consoles 
<control><option><f-key> to get a terminal, log in, and restart the X 
server.

I know those are not very elegant solutions, nor do they fix the 
problem, but hopefully it will be quicker than a full reboot.

-Ron

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:49 PM, thom phillabaum wrote:

> Actually, pressing the power button is how I've been putting it to 
> sleep (usually by accident when reaching for the delete key). The 
> problem is the sleep/wake-up process. When it wakes up the video is 
> hosed. You'll see what used to be the upper left part of the screen 
> blown up about 4 times and overlayed with other parts of the video ram 
> image, plus the color map seems screwed up too. Hmmm, I hadn't checked 
> the depth of the screen. Just did an experiment. Was in 16-bit display 
> mode, the video card wakes up apparently in scrambled 8-bit mode. 
> Tried running and sleeping in 8-bit mode and the display comes back in 
> 8-bit mode (with screwed up colormap) but the display is frozen 
> otherwise... typing "reboot" blindly doesn't seem to do anything. This 
> is a powerbook 3400c.
>
> thom