This is barely a laptop problem, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Occasionally my battery runs out of juice without any warning: no flashing orange light or anything like that; everything just shuts down. If this happens in console mode, there's generally no problems when I find a plug and start things up again. But if it crashes in X, I have problems when I try to start X again. The problem is that text in the menus is not visible, and the frames around xterm or rxvt are not visible. I can startx OK, and the debian menu system is there, but I can't read any text. I'm using 2.2r5 with a custom 2.2.19 kernel, xfree86 3.3.6, the svga server, blackbox 0.51.3, and the Debian menu system on my thinkpad 1200i (type 1161). When this has happened before, I uninstalled X, and reinstalled it. That fixed the problem, but I always think there's got to be a better way to fix this. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to restore my setup to its normal (excellent) condition? Thanks. Also, if there's a good battery monitor that might give me a bit more warning, I'd like to learn about it. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
