From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 05:03:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8128037B401; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (pc252.siliconnetwork.co.uk [194.205.132.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C1E43F3F; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk (wiese.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.150]) by scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CF28B993; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:03:36 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3EA3DE17.4070003@algroup.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:03:35 +0100 From: Ben Laurie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Laptop update... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:03:39 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Laurie wrote: > > >>so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X >>and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the >>screen back - am I missing a trick? > > > When you wake the box up again, try switching to another virtual console > and back again, and/or changing the display resolution using > ctrl-alt-[keypad + or -]. I've done that - it stays dark (though I _think_ I know that the console switch has worked, coz ctl-alt-del causes a clean reboot). > I've noticed similar things with my Dell > notebook, and seem to recall a discussion of this issue previously. > Basically, when things wake up, some piece of something forgets to power > the backlight back on again. There may have been a kernel option floating > around to deal with this, but it's worth a try to see if that can kick > things into action. If your notebook supports a CRT/LCD function key, you > could try fiddling that a few times to see if it jogs things back to life. I'll try that. > Killing and restarting X might also do it? That's a little tricky blind! Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff