> From: Spam Catcher [mailto:spamcatc...@ureach.com] > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:01 AM > > Version: Debian 5.0.2a-i386 > > The Bug: Computer goes to sleep during the boot process. > > During the initial boot, after the setup text has scrolled down the > screen and just before the logon > screen should appear, I receive the message: > > UNKNOWN MODE > H 74.9KHZ V 59.9HZ > GOING TO SLEEP > > After the message has been on the screen for maybe ten seconds, the > screen goes black, the computer > goes to sleep and that is all she wrote, the machine can only be > awakened by pushing the power > button to shut it off.
This is almost certainly because the X Window environment is trying to launch with a resolution your monitor doesn't support. The computer isn't in sleep mode, only the monitor is. Try cycling through available resolutions by pressing Ctrl-Alt-+ or Ctrl-Alt-- (+ or - on the numeric keypad). If that doesn't work, switch to a text console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, and login normally, and edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to include only resolutions that your monitor supports. If you don't have an xorg.conf file, or if it's empty, try generating one with "Xorg -configure", and then edit to remove resolutions you don't want. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
