On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if someone can give a newbie a hand ? I am running Red Hat 9.0
on a Compaq Armada which contains an internal ATI Rage LT Pro. The
display is working but there is a weird problem.
Like most laptops the screen goes blank when the lid is closed. When
this happens X Windows crashes and all I get is a blank screen after I
lift the lid again. The following additional information may help:
1) This problem does not occur during boot (before X Windows starts) or
in CMOS setup or when running the original OS (Windows 98SE).
Hardware is therefore assumed to be OK.
2) After X Windows crashes I can press Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 and get a
viewable text screen. Alt-F7 should get me back to X Windows but all
I see is a blank screen.
3) Everything else continues to work after X Windows crashes, for
example the CD Player in KDE continues to play an audio CD.
If someone can tell me how to access the setup and log files I can post
them but for now I am not sure where to look. All replies to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] please.
Such problems are usually caused by the BIOS performing some action on the
screen that the driver is not aware of. The X server has some support for
APM which might help, but I am not conversant with it. Alternatively, you
could run apmd, or some such daemon, and configure it to issue `chvt`
commands which would cause the X server to switch in and out of its
virtual terminal when power management events occur.
Marc.
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