From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 14:15:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1411543C; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:15:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port5.annex8.radix.net (port5.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.5]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26190; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:14:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:14:14 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal To: Greg Lehey Cc: David Shanes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Locks up on reboot In-Reply-To: <19990309082910.B490@lemis.com> 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 > > 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 | 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 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