Absolutely !!! I have three laptops. Two of them (Acers) freeze solid on closing the lid whether X is running or not. The third (Dell) is a lottery. Very ocassionally it will run quite happily. Usually it will run for a short time and then processes start to hang until eventually the whole machine hangs. The kernel people say "nothing we can do it must be a non standard BIOS". Some laptops suspend to RAM okay, but I have yet to see a single laptop (at work we use Compaqs and Sonys), suspend to disk and recover fully !!
Who knows, one day :-)
Owen
Shei, Shing-Shong wrote:
Kevin, Thank you very much for the workaround. It does the trick:1) Use CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to alternative console mode, 2) Close the lid and open it up again, 3) Use CTRL-ATL-F7 to return to the X window. Now the question is why we don't have this problem running Windows XP. Is the problem with the Radeon M7 driver under XFree86? Or the problem is with BIOS? If it's the later, I might bug Dell for a fix. Have a wonderful day. BruceSigh! This really needs to be a FAQ. IF only there was a fix. But there is a (messy) workaround. But it's lots better than a reboot. ..._______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
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