[TriLUG] need help with two problems

[David McDowell]

I have a similar problem with FC3 and XFCE on my old Fujitsu Lifebook
634Tx.  It does seem to sleep, and when I reopen, the display returns,
but keyboard it gone, mouse is gone, and I can't ssh in b/c the pcmcia
doesn't wake back up, so the nic is down too.  I can't cnt-alt-bkspc
either to kill X (b/c keyboard doesn't respond)... it's basically dead
in the water.  I have to remember to shutdown, or I have to force it
off then turn back on.  I figure I have a couple things going for
me... old, old and old, but thought I'd share anyway.  :)

David McD


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:42:03 -0500 (EST), Matt Pusateri
<mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> On Wed, March 16, 2005 8:27 pm, Dan Monjar said:
> > I use Mandrake 10.1 on a Dell Latitude C640... I've got two little
> > problems:
> >
> > 1.  When I shut the lid the machine stays on, doesn't hibernate.  When
> > I
> > open the lid I can't get the system to come back.  Moving mouse,
> > hitting
> > keys doesn't work.  The only thing I can do is press the power button.
> > This makes the system do an orderly shutdown.  This tells me it is
> > still
> > alive, just unresponsive.  Why?
> 
> I had a similar problem with some distribution, forget which one.  But
> what happened was once the lid was re-opened the laptop changed the
> display to the external vga port.  Cycling through with the function
> keys for extrenal display brought the screen back to normal.
> Everything was working you just couldn't tell b/c the screen was
> black.
> 
> Also can you ssh into the laptop when this happens?
> 
> Matt Pusateri
> 
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