Laptop update...

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:

> On 4/20/2003 6:07 PM, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 20 April 2003 04:09 pm, Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> >>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.
> >
> > I've had similar issues on my Toshiba laptop.  There are patches to XFree
> > floating around that resolve this, at least on my machine; basically, XFree
> > does not do a full reinit of the display on resume, by default.  So, in my
> > case, I have no mouse cursor; in your case, you have no backlight, and so
> > forth.  I've been digging for the patches and can't find 'em, but you may
> > have more luck than I.
>
> FWIW, in the case of my Dell at least, it's also an issue with syscons,
> not just X. And it's not just the backlighting, the whole screen stays
> black.

I'm having the same problem with a Dell Latitude C800.

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
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