monitor off before i can see shutdown messages

Ben Vitale bvitale at cisunix.unh.edu
Sat Mar 13 22:37:48 UTC 2004


Aaron Konstam wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:18:03PM -0500, Ben Vitale wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>   What can I do to stop Fedora from turning off my monitor immediately 
>>after I tell it to shutdown? I like to see whatever shutdown messages 
>>might appear, but the display goes dark before that.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ben
>>    
>>
>Strange. I have never seen that happen.
>Unless you shutdown down the logout screen rather than the gdm or kdm
>screen.
>
Not sure what you mean by "shutdown the logout screen" - but this 
happens when I shut down the machine either of two ways... 1) choose 
"Log Out" from the GNOME menu and Shutdown directly from there,  or 2)  
Log out to the Fedora login screen and then choose shutdown from there.

Ben





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