emerge freezes linux

TheCoop · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 6:56 pm Post subject: emerge freezes linux

always during a lengthy emerge the screen blanks out, even though apm and apci are disabled in the bios, and i can't re-activate the screen (key presses, mouse, nothing). Why does the screen blank out, can i stop it doing that or get it to re-activate the screen (geforce 4 ti4200, kernel drivers not installed)
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jezza · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Essex, UK

Yeah the same happens when I'm emerging, but just a keypress and its back. I'd guess maybe it can be configured in the kernel options somewhere (maybe a flag/option), perhaps if you are running in framebuffer try disabling it. Maybe theres an environmental variable which sets the length of the screen blanking.

Sorry I can't say more than that, I've got a laptop (Dell Insp 8200) and its got ACPI as a module, maybe you need ACPI for it to work???? I'd suggest experimenting with the apm/acpi options (power saving section) perhaps your solution lies there.

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TheCoop · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 8:48 am Post subject:

nope. nothing works, i have to press the restart button

maybe its got something to do with the emerge program? it blanks the screen after ~10 mins of compiling, except it doesnt un blank it for some reason. there must be a setting to disable that...
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Yes it's a kernel option.
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roXet · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 26

Does it freeze as soon as it blanks out, or do you think it freezes up at some point while the screen is blanked out? I was having a similar problem, but I would keeping hitting a key as soon as the screen blanked and I would eventually see the error message that it was giving. I was getting something about a "kernel bug" while trying to emerge something. I switched to a vanilla kernel and everything is good now.