Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:26:01 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IBM thinkpad 560E, after BIOS upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990113092257.28048D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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A little while ago, a friend of mine dropped my 560E notebook, so we returned it to IBM for repairs, which were thankfully under warranty (estimated repair cost: several hundred dollars :). However, when they repaired it, they performed a BIOS upgrade on it. Ever since then, APM has been acting up. The specific behavior I observe is that everything goes fine unless the screen is powered down for some reason. For example, during suspension or after a period of inactivity. It used to be that the screen would power back up again, either from console or X windows, in the event that the notebook was woken up, or a mouse click occurred, etc. Now the screen never powers back up. While I use AccelX, I also observe the problem when not in X Windows, and disabling support for power management in XiG appears not to help. I have not tried disabling apm support in the OS--given that it used to work, it would be great if it still did (I also like suspending my notebook :). Does anyone have any pointers as to things I could try, or should I be contacting IBM and pleaing for a BIOS un-upgrade? Thanks in advance, Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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