Does messing round in System > Preferences > Power Management help at all? I was experiencing similar problems but changing the 'Put computer to sleep when it is inactive for:' setting to <span style="font-weight: bold;">
never </span>seems to have done the trick.<br><br>ta<br><br>j<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Childs</b> <<a href="mailto:peterachilds@gmail.com">peterachilds@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm running Ubuntu 6.06LTS<br><br>Regually the machine goes into suspend, stops talking to the network
<br>and will not do anything until somone presses a key. (which you can't<br>really do if your not next to machine) This can be created by hitting<br>Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, which would normally restart X but seams to do<br>
somthing else on Ubuntu.....<br><br>I've done tones of web searches and found quite a lot of questions<br>unfortanlly everyone is getting blanked, so its a lot of questions<br>with no answers.<br><br>On the other hand my home machine is even worse (and I'm pritty sure
<br>its connected) when HAL starts up it freezes a couple of seconds<br>later, no log no nothing, I'm pritty sure there is no log because its<br>frozen IO (so can't write to screen, disk or anything) this is does<br>not look like a kernal panic however....
<br><br>Any ideas or further questions on either of these problems<br><br>I'm think of moving from Debian Sarge to Ubuntu (its generally more up<br>to date :) but this is turning into a major stubling block, While this<br>
may be fine on a Laptop its stupid on a desktop so the least that<br>should exsist is an off switch.<br><br>Anyway its pritty pointless because leaving you machine in suspend<br>wastes power, it would be better switched off entierly.
<br><br>This is getting on my nearves and thing we might all have to return to<br>TX cases which at least had proper off buttons if somone can't sort<br>this out soon.<br><br>Peter<br>(Not Happy).<br>--<br>Gllug mailing list -
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