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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:29:10 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Laptop Locks up on reboot
Message-ID:  <19990309082910.B490@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <09f501be699a$600b0e90$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com>; from David Shanes on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 11:32:16AM -0800
References:  <09f501be699a$600b0e90$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com>

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On Monday,  8 March 1999 at 11:32:16 -0800, David Shanes wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:37 PM, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> wrote:
>> My Dell Latitude CPi locks up during:
>>
>> # reboot (which includes Ctrl-Alt-Del)
>> # shutdown -h now (and pressing any key to reboot)
>>
>> It's just an annoyance, but is therefore annoying.  The only way to get it
>> to turn of is to take the battery out while it's still running (not a
>> pleasant thing to think about).
>>
>> I can still just `shutdown -h now` and turn off the power, but if I
>> accidently push a button the damn thing locks up!
>>
>> I can't exactly remember when this started happening, the laptop has
>> always been running at least 3.0-RELEASE.  It's now tracking stable.
>
>     I also have a Dell Latitude CPi. I started to install a couple of times
> (3.1R) but had to quit due to some problems that I am trying to resolve.
> When I try to quit sysinstall, the screen just locks up. The only recourse
> that I have is to pull my battery.

I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down
the power button for more than 8 seconds.

Greg
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