From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se>
To: David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, djurfeldt@nada.kth.se
Subject: Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800
Date: 18 Dec 2000 07:14:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xy7wvcyxnld.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A3D9AE2.8721062F@brown.edu>
In-Reply-To: David Feuer's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:04:34 -0500"
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.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-18 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-18 5:04 David Feuer
2000-12-18 5:24 ` David Feuer
2000-12-18 23:41 ` Andrew McNabb
2000-12-18 6:14 ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]
2000-12-18 7:38 ` David Feuer
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