Last I heard there is not immediate fix for this. XFree86 doesn't have
the hooks needed to use screen blanking. The best you could do is switch
to a console before putting your laptop into suspend. Then when you
unsuspend and switch back to X the screen shouldn't be messed up.
//Ben
"Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for computers."
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jon and Carla Day-Reiner wrote:
> Hrm, this doesn't seem to work for me. I was able to switch to a console
> screen after doing that key combo, but my x session still remained unusable.
> Upon switching back to the x screen (ctrl-alt-f7) the colour cycling resumes,
> just as if I had come off of a suspend. All I can do is either kill the session
> or do the ctrl-fn-alt-minus/plus combo and switch back to console and shutdown.
>
> I can't seem to figure out why this doesnt work. Oh well, I guess I'll just
> avoid suspending :-(.
>
> Jon
>
> On Sat, 09 Jan 1999, you wrote:
>
> >You are right. I have the same problem. I don't use APM much, but the fix is to
> >cycling the screen resolution, after the resume and bad screen appears, by
> >holding down the Ctrl, Fn, and Alt keys (together) and then pressing the blue -
> >key and then the blue + key (on the embedded knumeric pad). This will decrease
> >the screen resolution (- key) and the increase it back (+ key) to 1024x768. In
> >the process the screen seems to get re-initialised so that everything works
> >normally.
> >
> >I just verified this on my machine. The screen is restored to normal, but my
> >mouse is now screwed - this was not the case before I updated to RedHat 5.2. I'm
> >building a 2.2 kernel now, so maybe that'll help.
>
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