Different Video option ideas

[Basil Chupin]

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?

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