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Moving mouse won't wake up computer since Lion upgrade

Ever since my upgrade to Lion my mouse no longer wakes up the computer when I move it. I have to click the space bar on the keyboard to wake things up. Anyone else having this problem? Any ideas how to fix??

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 10:59 AM

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Jul 23, 2011 7:16 PM in response to meatservo

This seems to be a bug, the problem is affecting VNC remote desktop and TeamViewer remote where if the display is "SLEEPING" teamviewer doesn't connect to it, and VNC doesn't even see the machine being active.



APPLE Please check this issue, it was working before with Leopard and Snow Leopard, but it doesn't with LION.



I use TeamViewer and VNC a lot on my machines, and the only crazy work around is to turn Display Sleep mode OFF, thankfully ScreenSaver does work properly.


Display Sleep should turn your display off, but not affect your machine, as hard drive is active.



Thanks.

Jul 23, 2011 8:15 PM in response to adrianjoheni

adrianjoheni wrote:


This seems to be a bug, the problem is affecting VNC remote desktop and TeamViewer remote where if the display is "SLEEPING" teamviewer doesn't connect to it, and VNC doesn't even see the machine being active.



APPLE Please check this issue, it was working before with Leopard and Snow Leopard, but it doesn't with LION.



I use TeamViewer and VNC a lot on my machines, and the only crazy work around is to turn Display Sleep mode OFF, thankfully ScreenSaver does work properly.


Display Sleep should turn your display off, but not affect your machine, as hard drive is active.



Thanks.

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