[ltp] Screen blanking and X

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:41:09 +0200


On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:53:00 -0400, Joel Ebel wrote:
> Well, the lid switch is above the esc and access IBM buttons.  It's not 
> suposed to be pressed by humans.  A more normal way to resume would be 
> to press the Fn key, or the power button for a second.
> 
> Likewise, I have the same problem on my T40 running slackware 9 with
> 2.4.21.  I'm not using dri, so I wouldn't think it would be related
> to the dri patch.

Even if you don't use DRI, it can be the problem. It is enough to load
the radeon.o modle and enable DRI in your XF86Config-4.

glxinfo | grep direct

Regards,
Tino