Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:35:48 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301141229290.39326-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <3E2472E3.1060909@isi.edu>
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote: > Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Just curious but does the LCD stay on when the machine suspends > > since on mines, the last thing displayed will remain there until I hold > > the power button down to manually shut the machine off and then the power > > on where it does the fsck's and FreeBSD boots again. > > This has been discussed in the "ACPI video driver (for Dell Latitude > C640)" thread last August. The symptoms are actually a bit different: > The screens stays on on suspend, and goes black on resume. The machine > is still live after resume, and can be rebooted by typing blindly. I > believe this is a problem with certain ATI cards (mine, on a Latitude > C600, for example.) > > Someone (Mark Santcroos?) was going to fiddle with the ATI driver, but > nothing has ever materialized that I'm aware off. > > This is *the* key issue that makes -current on these Dell laptops > unpleasant, everything else has been working great for months. Have you tried: options SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH It's probably not this but worth looking at. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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