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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:28:21 -1000 (HST)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook
Message-ID:  <20030114162613.S3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
In-Reply-To: <3E24B5D6.8010005@isi.edu>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:

> Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
> >
> > >This has been discussed in the "ACPI video driver (for Dell Latitude
> > >C640)" thread last August. The symptoms are actually a bit different:
> > >The screens stays on on suspend, and goes black on resume. The machine
> > >is still live after resume, and can be rebooted by typing blindly. I
> > >believe this is a problem with certain ATI cards (mine, on a Latitude
> > >C600, for example.)
> > >
> > >Someone (Mark Santcroos?) was going to fiddle with the ATI driver, but
> > >nothing has ever materialized that I'm aware off.
> > >
> > >This is *the* key issue that makes -current on these Dell laptops
> > >unpleasant, everything else has been working great for months.
> >
> > 	Actually, I have a NVidia GeForce4Go 440 w/64 Megs so the problem
> > might not be related to the video card itself since the IBM ThinkPad A31P
> > uses the same video cards and the problem doesn't exist.  How did you
> > manage to even get the machine to resume since I've tried hitting the
> > escape key and even blindly typing but the machine is still suspended
> > with the LCD on as I can't even ping the machine from the network and the
> > only way out is to hold the power button down for 8 seconds and then power
> > back on.
>
> My Dell resumes from standby when I hit the power button briefly, i.e.
> less than the 4 seconds or so that force a power off.

	Hmmm, not mines.  When I hit the power button for like 1-3
seconds, I can see the lights change but the network portion atleast still
isn't operating.  I don't even know if the problem is FreeBSD related
since on the DellTalk Forums at dell.com, people are having issues with
suspend/resume even in WindowsXP where the machine will suspend but it
will not wake up except in WindowsXP, the screen does go off but the
screen will not go back on even when it resumes.


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