[ltp] TP R32 LCD goes blank, won't come back

[morpheus]

I've managed to get the screen to come back by suspending (it doesn't
suspend, but the screen comes back) so I'm assuming this is an APM
issue.  I'm going to try upgrading to 2.6 kernel and ACPI.

Thanks for the help.

James

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:55, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, morpheus wrote:
> 
> > I've been experiencing an intermittent problem on my TP R32 running
> > Fedora Core 1/Kernel 2.4.22-1.2188 with the radeon driver.
> > 
> > The LCD screen randomly goes dark.  It happens randomly, even when I am
> > in the middle of something, so it's not the APM timer.  Nothing I can do
> > will get it back (I tried all the Fn+ keys, and many other key combos). 
> > The backlight and display both shut off, so I can't see anything. 
> > However, I can ssh into the machine, so I know it's working.
> 
> When you ssh in, is anything unusual running?  Are there any tell-tale
> entries near the end of /var/log/messages?  This is in X, yes?  Does the 
> console work when this happens?
> 
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