going dim

[Steve Reilly]

Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com
> <mailto:pegngary at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Vincent Arnoux
>     <vincent.arnoux at gmail.com <mailto:vincent.arnoux at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
>         Is it a laptop? I had this problem once and it was due to the power
>         manager in which I had selected an option "Dim screen when
>         running on
>         battery" or something like that. My laptop ACPI was not very well
>         managed by Ubuntu and it was freezing trying to get the screen
>         to dim.
> 
>         I hope it helps...
> 
>         Vincent
> 
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> 
>     It is a laptop and indeed 'dim screen' was checked.  Been running an
>     hour since and so far so good.  Thanks!
> 
>     gary
> 
> 
> Nope, the dimming business hit me again.  Application dimmed, CPU usage
> went to 100%, only got better after rebooting.  I have no proprietary
> drivers installed.
> 
> gary
> 

what about can you ssh to the laptop from another computer when its
happening?

what process is hanging?

is this a fresh intrepid install?

what changes have you made from the default install?



steve