Different Video option ideas

[Linda]

On 01/16/2011 11:54 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 17/01/2011 00:33, Linda wrote:
>> I have an old Toshiba A56 Satellite laptop computer. It 
>> was freezing in Windows and driving the employee nuts. I 
>> installed 8.04 LTS on it and it never froze up in the 
>> year and a half it was running 8.04 LTS. I have now 
>> upgraded it to 10.04 LTS. To get video to work I use the 
>> i915.modeset=1 xforcevesa however now if the user logs 
>> off and the computer sits idle for an extended period of 
>> time it will freeze. I can not find the specs for the 
>> computer anywhere but the A55 has Intel Extreme Graphics 
>> so maybe it is the same. Does anyone have suggestions for 
>> a different video setting to try that might work better? 
>> For now I have just told the user to shutdown rather than 
>> log off as a work around, since so far it only freezes on 
>> the login screen.
>> Thanks
>> Linda
>
> I don't have an answer but only a question: are you sure 
> that it is 'freezing' or simply going into something like 
> hibernation[1]? (and when it does "freeze" what do you do 
> to "unfreeze" it"?) [Another question while I think of it 
> :-) : was this upgrade a fresh install or an upgrade in 
> the true sense (via the Update Manger)?
>
> BC
>
> [1] What's set in 
> System>Preferences>Screensaver>PowerManagement?
>
It was a clean install. When it freezes it will not respond 
to keyboard, or mouse, nor can you ssh in so I have to turn 
off the power and reboot
The laptop is always plugged in since the battery will not 
hold a charge. The power management shows  Put to sleep - 
never, when lid is shut - shutdown, Turn off display after 
30 min. I did change this to never, maybe it could solve the 
problem.
                      Linda