[ltp] T40 - Consensus on the blank screen coma (LCD sleep) issue?

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Mark G. Spencer wrote:

> I've been browsing through the thread and see how people have tackled this
> issue in various ways.  Or at least what I think is this issue.
> 
> I see people discussing sleep/suspend, but I'm not hoping to even get that
> far.  ;) Unless what is being referred to is sleep/suspend of the LCD, and
> not the entire system.
> 
> I just want to be able to "wake" my screen up when the LCD goes into sleep.
> It goes into a LCD coma whether I'm on battery or AC, it just takes longer
> on AC.  Everything else (pcmcia, hd, etc.) appear to continue running.  I
> subscribe to Red Hat's up2date service, have the latest patches, and it is
> still broken. 
> 
> Is there a RPM that can be downloaded to resolve this issue?  Is it XFree86
> related?  I don't want to turn the LCD sleep off in my BIOS because my
> battery will be killed in Windows during the work day when I'm not on AC.  
> 
> I called IBM and they blew me off.  They are only willing to support Windows
> on the three T40's we bought, because that was the installed OS.  What a
> joke for $3,000 laptops.
> 
> Thanks for the advice!

I've installed the latest redhat beta (fedora core test 2) on my T40 -
and screen blanking (Fn-F3) and suspend (Fn-F4) works fine. The
default kernel uses 'APM' instead of ACPI - and I'm pretty happy with
it.

Currenlty I've upgraded to latest rawhide - and these 2 things still work.

I'll sugest installing the latest kernel from rawhide - and see if
this works for you.

Satish