Re: X garbled after lid shut/open on Dell Inspiron 4150
Owen Savill <[email protected]>
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>> Sigh! This really needs to be a FAQ. IF only there was a fix Absolutely !!! I have three laptops. Two of them (Acers) freeze solid on closing the lid whether X is running or not. The third (Dell) is a lottery. Very ocassionally it will run quite happily. Usually it will run for a short time and then processes start to hang until eventually the whole machine hangs. The kernel people say "nothing we can do it must be a non standard BIOS". Some laptops suspend to RAM okay, but I have yet to see a single laptop (at work we use Compaqs and Sonys), suspend to disk and recover fully !! Who knows, one day :-) Owen Shei, Shing-Shong wrote: > > Kevin, > > Thank you very much for the workaround. It does the trick: > > 1) Use CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to alternative console mode, > 2) Close the lid and open it up again, > 3) Use CTRL-ATL-F7 to return to the X window. > > Now the question is why we don't have this problem running > Windows XP. Is the problem with the Radeon M7 driver under > XFree86? Or the problem is with BIOS? If it's the later, > I might bug Dell for a fix. > > Have a wonderful day. > > Bruce > >> Sigh! This really needs to be a FAQ. IF only there was a fix. But >> there is a (messy) workaround. But it's lots better than a reboot. >> ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [email protected] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert >