Laptop update...

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> > I'm having the same problem with a Dell Latitude C800.
>
> I have observed similar problems on my ASUS Silicon Motion LynxEM+
> notebook. Well Actually what happens is the usual "black screen and
> no return". No console switching no whatever. More importantly it's
> still possible to login remotely in to the machine.
> There I always find an XFree86 process taking 98% of CPU time.
> Tracing it showed that it hangs trying to ececute an VESA
> opscreen operation. Apparently it's XFree which is broken I think.
> Well it smell further after BIOS calls hanging, since I did have
> to switch the Option "NoBIOS" on for getting thich chipset working
> under FreeBSD at all. Otherwise it hangs right at the first
> try to execute BIOS code.
>
> Anyway SIGPOWER is definitively something missing from the UNIX signal
> list... No clumpsy "help daemon" just SIGPOWER I think...

My system doesn't resume from syscons. I haven't tried X yet...

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