On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 edal@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I wonder if someone can give a newbie a hand ? I am running Red Hat 9.0 > on a Compaq Armada which contains an internal ATI Rage LT Pro. The > display is working but there is a weird problem. > Like most laptops the screen goes blank when the lid is closed. When > this happens X Windows crashes and all I get is a blank screen after I > lift the lid again. The following additional information may help: > 1) This problem does not occur during boot (before X Windows starts) or > in CMOS setup or when running the original OS (Windows 98SE). > Hardware is therefore assumed to be OK. > 2) After X Windows crashes I can press Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 and get a > viewable text screen. Alt-F7 should get me back to X Windows but all > I see is a blank screen. > 3) Everything else continues to work after X Windows crashes, for > example the CD Player in KDE continues to play an audio CD. > If someone can tell me how to access the setup and log files I can post > them but for now I am not sure where to look. All replies to > edal@xxxxxxxxxxxx please. Such problems are usually caused by the BIOS performing some action on the screen that the driver is not aware of. The X server has some support for APM which might help, but I am not conversant with it. Alternatively, you could run apmd, or some such daemon, and configure it to issue `chvt` commands which would cause the X server to switch in and out of its virtual terminal when power management events occur. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
