From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 2:58:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.ods.org (fbsd.ods.org [64.50.162.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E116937B43C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 42949 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Aug 2000 09:58:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Aug 2000 09:58:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 05:58:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Systems Administrator To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitor dies and doesn't come back. In-Reply-To: <00c901c0109a$e27ceda0$1200a8c0@matt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG APM is off btw, forgot to mention that :( ---- Jason DiCioccio - IBM Global Services - djason@us.ibm.com - www.ibm.com Systems Admin - Open Domain Server - geniusj@ods.org - www.ods.org FreeBSD - The Power to Serve - - www.freebsd.org ---- On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Systems Administrator" > To: > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:28 PM > Subject: Monitor dies and doesn't come back. > > > > I've been having a strange problem recently after installing a new > > harddrive.. the harddrive works fine in other OS's, but in FreeBSD, > > (seemingly after the HD install), the Monitor (CTX VL19") goes into > > powersaving and you cant get it back without doing a cold reboot.. not > > even a warm reboot will work. I am not sure exactly what is happening > > here, perhaps something borked? I have a Western Digital Caviar 45GB drive > > running at UDMA33. > > Definitely strange. I would turn off APM support in your BIOS. It may be > possible that when your HDD spins down it's sending off a wierd command do > your APM hardware which is either misinterpreted by a) FreeBSD's apm support > or b) your BIOS's APM support which suspends the whole system or something > whacky like that. > > -- > Matthew Emmerton > GSI Computer Services > +1 (800) 217-5409 (Canada) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message