Re: Inspiron 4100, APM, blinking lights
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:00:20 +0100, Tim Connors wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Michael Perry wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if anyone running a Dell Inspiron 4100, debian kernel
>> sources 2.6.15, with apm compiled in has seen a periodic problem with APM
>> suspends where the numlock and screenlock lights just blink on and off
>> repeatedly and the resume does not work. I looked at the number of times
>> this happens and its about 2 times out of every 30 suspends. I hardly
>> ever reboot the laptop since APM has worked so flawlessly for me and this
>> is not bad; but it causes me a bit of desire to find out if others
>> experience similar things with a 4100 and APM suspends.
>
> Blinking lock leds mean the kernel has panicked. I think APM still works
> on my Inspiron 4000, but I haven't checked it in a while...
>
>
> Perhaps, if you can be bothered, hook up a serial console and see what the
> panic is about. You should be able to google for "serial console panic"
>
> Or get out of X (killing xdm/kdm/gdm), and then try to cause the panic
> again -- the panic should then be displayed on the screen.
>
> --
> TimC
> Smash head on keyboard to continue.
>
>
Thanks Tim! I am gonna give the non-X thing a try for awhile and see if
I can locate the problem.
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