going dim

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>wrote:

> 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


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.
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