Hello, I have an hp laptop that works except when the screen goes blank (screen saver kicking in). If I boot the system and use it for a whille, all is fine. If I leave the system for a short while, I can never get it back after the screen blanks. No matter which keys I touch the screen stays blank. I'm running kde 3.5.8 on it. It's mostly a stable system. Once and while, when it boots, the kernel just hangs, alway at the same place. The first line starts with the word "clock".
I found this hack: http://www.gus-mg.org/dig/dv9205us.html which may be related to my problem. Somehow I'm guessing it is something to do with ACPI (not sure). When I go through the kde control center to {power control} -> {laptop battery} -> {ACPI Config tab}, the all options are just fuzzed out (unsetable). Ideas on getting this working or another method to check the ACPI settings is most appreciated. The system boots just fine into XP and after the screen blanks just touching the return key brings it back (like all of my other gentoo laptops I manage for other folks). I'm not doing anything different (that I'm aware of) with the kernel compared to other systems. The laptop has not always done this. At first, the clock boot hang was rare. Now it happens more frequently, maybe every 5th bootup. I set the screen blanker to the clock option and that has seemed to fix the recovery problem when the screen saver kicks in. Ideas where to look to fix the clock boot hang problem and setting the ACPI options are appreciated. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
