Re: Install Report --- Dell 8200
I've been using apm to suspend to ram and it's been working... I have not tried
to suspend to disk. When the computer comes back up after being suspended often
there is a flickering on the left of the screen or sometimes the whole screen
is vertically offset (the lowest portion of the screen on top and the topmost
below that), I usually do strl-alt-f1 and then ctrl-alt-f7 and it fixes it. I
have had a problem where the lcd backlight shuts off and wont come back on when
I come out of suspend, log out (and gdm restarts), or switch to a text terminal
and then back to X. I had this problem under windows XP a couple times as well
and am inclined to believe it's a hardware problem. The monitor always seems on
the verge of going kaput on this laptop.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:06:48PM -0500, dircha wrote:
> I've struggled more than I care to admit with power management on my
> 8200, to the point that in large part I gave up on it. I wonder whether
> you have had any better luck.
>
> What solution are you using: apm or acpi?
>
> Suspending to disk has never worked with APM, I believe because of a
> BIOS issue on this laptop. I had suspend to ram working for a while with
> APM, but it was never more than 60% reliable.
>
> I haven't been able to get either suspend to ram or suspend to disk to
> work with ACPI.
>
> And on top of all of this, I had to send my 8200 in for repairs in
> January and they upgraded my BIOS. As best as I can tell, since about
> this time every time I close the lid the computer goes into a suspend
> state from which it cannot recover and must be reset with the power
> button, even though in the BIOS I have specified that it should take no
> action when the lid is closed.
>
> Not to mention the ongoing history of problems with APM/ACPI and the
> Nvidia drivers, having for the longest time to modify the sources to
> have any hope of even suspend to ram.
>
> I just don't have time to be wrestle with it any more, and use it more
> or less as a desktop replacement only now.
>
> _at least_ having suspend to ram is very important for unplugged use -
> i.e. for use as anything but a desktop replacement.
>
> Thanks,
>
> dircha
>
>
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