Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook

Vincent Poy wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lars Eggert wrote:
>
> >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.
>
>
> 	Hmmm, not mines.  When I hit the power button for like 1-3
> seconds, I can see the lights change but the network portion atleast still
> isn't operating. 

The LEDs change on mine too, same as they do when I resume in Windows 
XP. (The screen stays off, this is the bug.)

Not sure what you mean by "the network portion". Some network services 
don't react kindly to being suspended/resumed, but that's a different 
problem that can be worked around by stopping them before suspend, and 
restarting them on resume. I had some scripts that did this for 4.X, 
will port them to -current once I can resume... :-)

>  I don't even know if the problem is FreeBSD related
> since on the DellTalk Forums at dell.com, people are having issues with
> suspend/resume even in WindowsXP where the machine will suspend but it
> will not wake up except in WindowsXP, the screen does go off but the
> screen will not go back on even when it resumes.

FWIW, mine suspends and resumes perfectly in Windows XP. Be sure to run 
the latest Dell BIOS and device firmwares.

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