Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:04:11 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook Message-ID: <20030114150137.K3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> 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. > > Lars Actually, I have a NVidia GeForce4Go 440 w/64 Megs so the problem might not be related to the video card itself since the IBM ThinkPad A31P uses the same video cards and the problem doesn't exist. How did you manage to even get the machine to resume since I've tried hitting the escape key and even blindly typing but the machine is still suspended with the LCD on as I can't even ping the machine from the network and the only way out is to hold the power button down for 8 seconds and then power back on. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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