<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Steve Reilly <<a href="mailto:sfreilly@roadrunner.com">sfreilly@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Gary Kirkpatrick wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:pegngary@gmail.com">pegngary@gmail.com</a> </div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:pegngary@gmail.com">pegngary@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Vincent Arnoux </div><div class="im">> <<a href="mailto:vincent.arnoux@gmail.com">vincent.arnoux@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:vincent.arnoux@gmail.com">vincent.arnoux@gmail.com</a>>> 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 > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list </div>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> <div class="im">> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > > > 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 > </div>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</blockquote><div> My other laptop has vista on it, and my wife hammering away. It would take a bit of time for me to figure out how to SSH. The process that hangs is whatever I am working on. Most of the time I have FF open, and often another application but it does not seem to matter which one. Usually it happens when there are two applications running. This Intrepid is an upgrade from Hardy. I have installed, uninstalled programs and several updates, but I have no log of what I have done. I also notice that the fan is always running when the screen dims. But it's running now too and I am having no problems. I tried to install xsensor to check on cpu temperature but XSensor is not displaying anything at all, not yet anyway. </div></div>