[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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