Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:14:14 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Locks up on reboot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903081712570.48051-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <19990309082910.B490@lemis.com>
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> > I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down > the power button for more than 8 seconds. Thanks Greg, but it didn't work for me. Can anyone tell me what could have changed since 3.0R that would cause this reboot problem to surface? Thanks, ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 8 March 1999 at 11:32:16 -0800, David Shanes wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:37 PM, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> wrote: > >> My Dell Latitude CPi locks up during: > >> > >> # reboot (which includes Ctrl-Alt-Del) > >> # shutdown -h now (and pressing any key to reboot) > >> > >> It's just an annoyance, but is therefore annoying. The only way to get it > >> to turn of is to take the battery out while it's still running (not a > >> pleasant thing to think about). > >> > >> I can still just `shutdown -h now` and turn off the power, but if I > >> accidently push a button the damn thing locks up! > >> > >> I can't exactly remember when this started happening, the laptop has > >> always been running at least 3.0-RELEASE. It's now tracking stable. > > > > I also have a Dell Latitude CPi. I started to install a couple of times > > (3.1R) but had to quit due to some problems that I am trying to resolve. > > When I try to quit sysinstall, the screen just locks up. The only recourse > > that I have is to pull my battery. > > I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down > the power button for more than 8 seconds. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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