Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook

Vincent Poy wrote:

> 	Just curious but does the LCD stay on when the machine suspends
> since on mines, the last thing displayed will remain there until I hold
> the power button down to manually shut the machine off and then the power
> on where it does the fsck's and FreeBSD boots again.

This has been discussed in the "ACPI video driver (for Dell Latitude 
C640)" thread last August. The symptoms are actually a bit different: 
The screens stays on on suspend, and goes black on resume. The machine 
is still live after resume, and can be rebooted by typing blindly. I 
believe this is a problem with certain ATI cards (mine, on a Latitude 
C600, for example.)

Someone (Mark Santcroos?) was going to fiddle with the ATI driver, but 
nothing has ever materialized that I'm aware off.

This is *the* key issue that makes -current on these Dell laptops 
unpleasant, everything else has been working great for months.

Lars
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Lars Eggert <[email protected]>           USC Information Sciences Institute