Laptop taking a bashing when nothing happens.

[WierdAAR]

Hello,
I noticed something quite weird and hope that someone can help.
When ever my laptop is untouched for a while is goes to a screen saver (black screen), but when I come back is seems as though is has been doing something that requires a lot of CPU. The fans are blowing, it's warm and until I move the mouse the CPU working diode is flashing almost constantly. Its really weird. Any ideas?

[dibl]

Re: Laptop taking a bashing when nothing happens.

Huh -- sounds like the Windows machine at my office.

The first thing I think of is, right before you walk away from it next time, open a Konsole window and enter

top

Then, when you come back and it is thrashing away, look in the top window and see what the heck is going on.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Laptop taking a bashing when nothing happens.

Check to make sure that you don't really have a screensaver module running somewhere. Check both SystemSettings > Desktop > ScreenSaver and make sure nothing is checked, and also check with CTRL-ESC to make sure that no xscreensaver process is running. It might be trying to run a saver that requires video features you don't have setup, and is therefore giving you a black screen while chewing up your cpu trying to run.

[WierdAAR]

Re: Laptop taking a bashing when nothing happens.

I have disabled the screen saver, and will report back later today!