Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 13:42:58 +0100 From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Laptop update... Message-ID: <3EB50AD2.2070209@algroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030421143642.BD6175D08@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030421143642.BD6175D08@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:09:15 -0400 (EDT) >>From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> >>Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >> >> >>On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Laurie wrote: >> >> >>>so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X >>>and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the >>>screen back - am I missing a trick? >> >>When you wake the box up again, try switching to another virtual console >>and back again, and/or changing the display resolution using >>ctrl-alt-[keypad + or -]. I've noticed similar things with my Dell >>notebook, and seem to recall a discussion of this issue previously. >>Basically, when things wake up, some piece of something forgets to power >>the backlight back on again. There may have been a kernel option floating >>around to deal with this, but it's worth a try to see if that can kick >>things into action. If your notebook supports a CRT/LCD function key, you >>could try fiddling that a few times to see if it jogs things back to life. >>Killing and restarting X might also do it? > > > Killing X and re-starting will not do the trick, I'm afraid. I have had > mixed success switching resolution and you need to modify the keymap to > do this on ThinkPads as the NumLock must be on and the key that SHOULD > turn it on is not mapped to do so. > > The work-around I have reported to other forums for users of Radeon > Mobility M7 graphics at 1400x1050 is: > > Switch to a text display (CTRL-ALT-F2) (Display will still be bad.) > Turn off the display (Fn-F3 on my T30, but check the doc for your laptop) > Turn the display back on (press any key) > Switch back to the X display (ALT-F9, by default) Yay! That works! Thanks. Now all I need is some semblance of workingness for the rest and I'm happy :-) Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
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