Subject: Re: apm issue with my Thinkpad...
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/16/2005 10:47:14
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:43:15PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> If the machine is on battery and left running unattended, the screen=20
> blanks.  Usually, I can't get it to turn back on again, except by=20
> suspend/resume -- and sometimes (like just now) the suspend doesn't=20
> work.  From that, I suspect that there's an APM event being sent to the=
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> kernel, and it isn't being handled properly.  Has anyone else seen=20
> this?  Any fixes or bypasses?

It may not be entirely apm.. does "xset dpms force on" produce any result?

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Dan.
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