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From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
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Subject: Re: waking up from zzz(8)
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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:23 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> = On Sun, 2 May 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> = > My Vaio laptop (5.2-current from April 7) duly goes to a quiet sleep
> = > when I type `zzz'.
> = >
> = > Trouble is, I don't know, how to recover from that. If I hit a
> = > keyboard key, there is some activity inside, but the screen never
> = > turns on and rebooting seems to be my only option.
> =
> = The power button should wake the system if pressed briefly (don't hold
> = it down for more that 2-3 seconds since above that means hard power
> = off). Also, the lid switch should work if you close the lid and open
> = it again.
>
> That's what I thought. The laptop seems to wake up -- the lights come
> on, but the screen remains blank and the built-in NICs (fxp and ath)
> don't respond.
>
> I upgraded to Saturday's -current (May 1st) -- no changes.

Use a serial console.  Sounds like your system is waking up but not fully.
The screen may be helped by loading acpi_video.

-Nate