Re: Suspend Problems
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. -- Carla and/or Jonathan Day-Reiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #985632 Toronto, Ontario, Canada *insert favourite quote here* --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend Problems
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. -- Carla and/or Jonathan Day-Reiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #985632 Toronto, Ontario, Canada *insert favourite quote here* --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend Problems
No, the kernel is booting fine from lilo -- APM reports ok when booting, and poweroff when I shutdown -h works. I can suspend if I am in a character console, just not in Xwindows. That's where the problems set in. Jon On Fri, 08 Jan 1999, you wrote: The kernel support for apm should be fix that. You set the options that are opened when you set apm and compiled, then put the vmlinuz kernel image in a convenient location, edited the lilo.conf and ran lilo with no errors right? The only thing I can think of is that you didn't use the new kernel when you boot last. --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend Problems
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Re: Suspend Problems
The kernel support for apm should be fix that. You set the options that are opened when you set apm and compiled, then put the vmlinuz kernel image in a convenient location, edited the lilo.conf and ran lilo with no errors right? The only thing I can think of is that you didn't use the new kernel when you boot last. On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Jon and Carla Day-Reiner wrote: Hi, I'm running Redhat 5.2 on my Dell Inspiron 3200. I just finished re-compiling my kernel with APM support, but the machine crashes very nastily after suspending. When I try to resume, the screen goes completely insane with all sorts of crazy colour cycling and such. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any way to fix it? Jon --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://nts.ml.org FAQ: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~tomba/inspiron/ http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/ List Archives: http://nts.ml.org/inspiron/maillist.html To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List administrator:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend Problems
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Re: Suspend Problems
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