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On Thursday 07 June 2007 21:17, james kilty wrote: > Hello > My wife borrowed my laptop and physically closed it. Everything is blank > and I can neither switch it off nor show the desktop. It seems to be > chuntering on in the background. Obviously once I get it going again, I > will obviously have to find the settings that determine what happens > when it is closed and change it. Meanwhile, how do I show the screen? > Quite possibly you can't... What I suspect has happened is that when the lid was closed, the laptop tried to suspend or hibernate but failed. I had a Dell laptop which used to get into this state, where it had switched the screen off before going into suspend but then suspend failed and it didn't reinitialise the display. If the machine itself is still working and not in some crashed state then you may be able to get into it via SSH or maybe VNC if desktop sharing is enabled (that's presuming it's on a network). Failing that, your best option is to switch to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), log-in, then type 'poweroff' so you at least get a clean shutdown. If it's crashed and the power button isn't working, you'll have to remove the battery to kill it. HTH, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html