Screensaver dies?

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/03/2010 04:01 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 02:49:16PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>> On 04/02/2010 01:34 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have installed ubuntu-9.10 on this acer travelmate 8371 in december last
>>> year. I have configured the screensaver (black screen) to get activated when
>>> the laptop display is closed.
>>>
>>> For the last four months, I had no problems with this setup.
>>>
>>> Today, in the morning, the trouble appeared the first time.
>>>
>>> I opened the display and had a black screen (the screensaver). But hitting
>>> various keys did not help, the screen remained black. The keypad seemed to
>>> be dead and switching to virtual console via ALT-F1 did not work. I could
>>> login via ssh, but could not see anything unusual. So I killed the
>>> screensaver. But this did not help at all.
>>>
>>> Then I rebooted, and anything appeared to work as usual.
>>>
>>> Then I closed the display again and moved the laptop around (removed the
>>> power supply, maybe this has to do with the problem?). Now I open it, and
>>> again, the screen remains black.
>>>
>>> In this situation, the laptop is totally unusable to me at all.
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>>        
> Thanks for your reply, Karl!
>
>    
>>           I think your problem may be with the hibernate command. I know
>> with my laptop I have not had success with closing and opening it.
>>      
> I have disabled hibernate completely, since this laptop is known to not
> being able to wake up because of its broken BIOS.
>
>    
>> On
>> mine if I close it, it turns clear off! This is not good or bad. But it
>> still works fine. Also I never use a screensaver because they are
>> unneeded now.
>>      
> Turns out to be a hardware defect. First, I thought it is a software problem
> since a reboot fixed it. But this time, rebooting and power cycling don't
> help. The screen remains black. So I'll ship it for repair.
>
> Sorry for bothering the list, but at first, I really thought it is a problem
> with the screen saver.
>
>    
     Not a problem! People try to help but we do not have the long term 
experience so you are better able to reach the proper fix. Hope your 
laptop can be fixed cheap.

73 Karl