[TriLUG] RH 7.1 on ThinkPad T21 hanging

[Jonathan Magid]

We had a similar problems with our thinkpads t2[0-2]. It went away when we
stopped running gpm while running X.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> Now that I'm using my T21 more and more, I'm leaving it on for
> longer periods of time.  Not as long as I'd like, though,
> since it seems to do a hard hang sometimes.  At least twice
> I've noticed that it happened when xscreensaver was running
> the greynetic hack; that's what was frozen on the screen.
>
> BIOS functions seem unaffected; the keyboard light, speaker
> volume and mute, idle screen power-off, and similar things
> are still accessible and running.  Once the screen goes
> dark, though, nothing will paint it when a keyboard or mouse
> action happens; I'm not even sure it powers back up (but I think
> it does).
>
> The only way I've found to get out of this is to hold the
> power key down for 10+ seconds -- which blows away any
> work-in-progress, of course. :-(
>
> Has anyone here encountered anything like this?
>
> On a brighter note, VMware rocks. :-)
>

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