Nate Lawson wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't change anything unfortunately.
>Vincent Poy wrote:
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>> Just curious but does the LCD stay on when the machine suspends
>>since on mines, the last thing displayed will remain there until I hold
>>the power button down to manually shut the machine off and then the power
>>on where it does the fsck's and FreeBSD boots again.
>
>This has been discussed in the "ACPI video driver (for Dell Latitude
>C640)" thread last August. The symptoms are actually a bit different:
>The screens stays on on suspend, and goes black on resume. The machine
>is still live after resume, and can be rebooted by typing blindly. I
>believe this is a problem with certain ATI cards (mine, on a Latitude
>C600, for example.)
>
>Someone (Mark Santcroos?) was going to fiddle with the ATI driver, but
>nothing has ever materialized that I'm aware off.
>
>This is *the* key issue that makes -current on these Dell laptops
>unpleasant, everything else has been working great for months.
Have you tried:
options SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH
It's probably not this but worth looking at.
This is pretty strange, it looks like the machine suspends before the display sleep code has finished executing, and when it resumes, it executes the rest, and turns off the display...
Lars
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