Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried:
  options SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH

It's probably not this but worth looking at.

-Nate


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