Different Video option ideas

[David Curtis]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Have you checked /var/log/Xorg.(n).log to see if it really is xorg crashing,
also see if xorg is really using vesa not intel there too. I say this
because most freeze ups are graphics related and this could be a 3d
screensaver invoking before hibernate/suspend timeout occurs.

Dave
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