On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > > > When I close the lid switch (of my T20 with T22 BIOS, as usual ;-) before > > > booting linux, the display stays dark when I open the switch afterwards. > > > That is, I boot into grub with the switch open, then press it down, > > > and let grub load linux. Now, I don't have a clue how long exactly I > > > have to wait before releasing the switch, but if I hold it down > > > until the basic hardware initialization (whatever that is, exactly ;-) > > > is over, it won't light up again. > > > > > > Any hints? > > > > What do you use to drive the console? Text mode, or some framebuffer (VESA, > > etc)? > > Text mode, no framebuffer. Maybe rmmod+modprobe on the acpi drivers (video, button) fixes it? You can also try to get thinkpad-acpi to help you discover where things are going bad. Add something to system startup that appends the contents of /proc/acpi/ibm/video to a logfile BEFORE X.org can start, and check if it differs in the problematic case... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
