Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook

Vincent Poy wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> 	Actually, I have a NVidia GeForce4Go 440 w/64 Megs so the problem
> might not be related to the video card itself since the IBM ThinkPad A31P
> uses the same video cards and the problem doesn't exist.  How did you
> manage to even get the machine to resume since I've tried hitting the
> escape key and even blindly typing but the machine is still suspended
> with the LCD on as I can't even ping the machine from the network and the
> only way out is to hold the power button down for 8 seconds and then power
> back on.

My Dell resumes from standby when I hit the power button briefly, i.e. 
less than the 4 seconds or so that force a power off.

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