Re: Laptop update...

Kevin Oberman wrote:

>>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:09:15 -0400 (EDT)
>>From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org>
>>Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X
>>>and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the
>>>screen back - am I missing a trick? 
>>
>>When you wake the box up again, try switching to another virtual console
>>and back again, and/or changing the display resolution using
>>ctrl-alt-[keypad + or -].  I've noticed similar things with my Dell
>>notebook, and seem to recall a discussion of this issue previously.
>>Basically, when things wake up, some piece of something forgets to power
>>the backlight back on again.  There may have been a kernel option floating
>>around to deal with this, but it's worth a try to see if that can kick
>>things into action.  If your notebook supports a CRT/LCD function key, you
>>could try fiddling that a few times to see if it jogs things back to life. 
>>Killing and restarting X might also do it?
> 
> 
> Killing X and re-starting will not do the trick, I'm afraid. I have had
> mixed success switching resolution and you need to modify the keymap to
> do this on ThinkPads as the NumLock must be on and the key that SHOULD
> turn it on is not mapped to do so.
> 
> The work-around I have reported to other forums for users of Radeon
> Mobility M7 graphics at 1400x1050 is:
> 
> Switch to a text display (CTRL-ALT-F2) (Display will still be bad.)
> Turn off the display (Fn-F3 on my T30, but check the doc for your laptop)
> Turn the display back on (press any key)
> Switch back to the X display (ALT-F9, by default)

Yay! That works! Thanks. Now all I need is some semblance of workingness
for the rest and I'm happy :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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