I get "vertical bars" every 10-15 resumes.  In my case it does not seem to 
have anything to do with whether I'm in X or not.  In addition to the 64MB 
CF in the CF slot, I am using the PCMCIA card slot for my 256 MB CF card.  
After reading other posts I suspect that this is why I get "vertical bars" 
so much more often than others report.  I do try to give 5-10 seconds of 
inactivity before suspending to minimize access to the PCMCIA/CF card, but 
it seems to make no difference.

I think it would be cool to be able to blank the unit's screen without 
suspending, not only to avoid "vertical bars" but also so that you can run 
background processes without having the screen draw battery power.

Does anyone know how much power the screen eats?  Would this screen blanking 
even make that much difference.

    John

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>From: billy ball <bball@tux.org>
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>Subject: Re: Blanking screen of z50 without suspend?
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>the only time i've had trouble with suspend/resume is when using X... if i
>quit my X session back to the console, then press the power button, the
>z50 seems to recover quite nicely...
>
>(i'm using greg hughe's 1.5.1Z kernel)
>
>hth,
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>bb
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>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Florian Cramer wrote:
>
> > Given the "vertical bars" issue with suspend/resume on a z50, is it
> > possible to blank the unit's screen without suspending the computer?
> > My idea is to keep it running nonstop on external power without
> > stressing the display.
> >
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