RE: [CentOS] LCD blanks out overnight

2008-09-09 Thread Joe Tseng
Yeah I tried that too but no luck. I know the Fn button works since I'm always able to pop open the DVD tray. Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:53:13 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] LCD blanks out overnight hmmm, usually ctrl-alt f1 would fix this. Sine

Re: [CentOS] LCD blanks out overnight

2008-09-09 Thread nate
Joe Tseng wrote: I inherited an ancient Dell Latitude C840 and recently installed CentOS 5.2 on it. It worked fine for the most part, but when I left it overnight and came back the next morning, the screen blacked out and wouldn't come back unless I did a hard reset. Even though I turned off

RE: [CentOS] LCD blanks out overnight

2008-09-09 Thread Joe Tseng
I know my laptop didn't crash because I'm able to put it into suspend mode. Thanks for the tip; I'll try it out. I also changed my BIOS and told it to disable power savings when plugged in. Maybe one of the two will help... Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 06:57:44 -0700 Subject: Re: [CentOS] LCD

Re: [CentOS] LCD blanks out overnight

2008-09-09 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 09:39 -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: I inherited an ancient Dell Latitude C840 and recently installed CentOS 5.2 on it. It worked fine for the most part, but when I left it overnight and came back the next morning, the screen blacked out and wouldn't come back unless I did a