[ltp] How to wake-up T30

D. Sen dsen at ieee.org
Thu Apr 24 23:32:50 CEST 2003


I have that effect (suspending itself after a set time) turned off on my 
T30. I have to explicitely suspend it using Fn+F4 or apm -s to suspend it.

George Yanos wrote:
> My t-30 had a similar problem.  It seems, however, that not all of
> them do.  The key, I thinhk, is the display.  I have a 1400x1050
> display and it seems to have a problem.  If I let it shut itself off
> (the display, that is) by timing out on the idle timer, then I can not
> get it to come back on.
> 
> It is true that two presses of Fn-f4, to put it sleep really then wake
> it up again, restores it to functioning.
> 
> I don't like it, but it does get the machine back.
> 
> 
> 
>>>>>>"Ben" == Ben Pfaff <blp at cs.stanford.edu> writes:
>>>>>
> 
>     Ben> Lewis Adam-CAL022 <Adam.Lewis at motorola.com> writes:
>     >> So I keep having this problem, that I step away for too long and my T30 has
>     >> gone to sleep.  How do I wake it up?  I keep cold rebooting the machine each
>     >> time, and of course Linux does not like that :-( 
> 
>     Ben> If the machine really suspended itself, use Fn+F4.  Otherwise,
>     Ben> hit a key and it should come back up.  If the display is
>     Ben> corrupted after that, try switching to a text console
>     Ben> (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1) and toggling the display off then on (Fn+F7
>     Ben> twice) and switching back to the console you came from (possibly
>     Ben> Alt+F7).
>     Ben> -- 
>  
> 

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