Re: weird problem - ibook power management
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 06:58, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Hi.. I'm experiencing a weird problem.. usually when I close the lid of my
> ibook (w/ benh10 kernel and the power management enabled in the kernel), the
> computer goes into standby.. and when I open the lid, it comes back up..
> sometimes (and I can't seem to identify a pattern) after the ibook is closed
> and it's gone into standby and I've left it in my bag (so its on battery) for
> a while, when I take it out, the white flashing light has disappeared, when I
> open the display, it doesn't come back up but I know it hasn't shutdown cos
> the caps lock and num lock lights work.. and pressing Fn key doesn't bring
> it back up... today, after it came back from standby when I opened the lid, I
> reconnected the power cable and then closed the lid after a few seconds and
> the problem I just described reoccurred.. I've been basically shutting the
> computer down and then restarting to "solve" the problem.. any ideas on what
> might be happening and how to solve it?
I'm afraid there may be a problem with the PMU. I had similar symptoms
on the previous PowerBook before I had to send it in to get the PMU
replaced. Or maybe it just needs some sort of PMU reset, you can google
for this, but you do that on your own risk.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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