Screensaver dies?

[Karl Larsen]

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?
>
>    
         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. 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.

Good luck-Karl