Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800 | From | Mikael Djurfeldt <> | Date | 18 Dec 2000 07:14:38 +0100 |
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David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu> writes:
> I get this problem both in Linux and Windows, so I won't > rule out hardware/bios bugs, but I find that often when my > monitor (backlight) gets turned off automatically after a > long period of non-use, the computer freezes up. I think it > only happens when I've left it that way for a long time, > though. If I move the mouse immediately after the screen is > blacked, I have no trouble, but if I leave it for a long > time, when I get back the monitor won't unblack, > ctrl-alt-backspace does nothing, ctrl-alt-delete does > nothing, Fn-Suspend, Fn-A don't do anything, and the > capslock and numlock keys don't do anything either. I > haven't tried reaching the machine from outside yet, but I > will if someone wants.
I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 with BIOS A15 and exactly the same problem.
(I last observed this problem using linux-2.4.0-test12, though. Now I'm running test13-pre3 and it has not yet occurred.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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