[ltp] Funny...

[Hamish Marson]

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I have a wee problem... It looks like hardware, specifically, it looks
like the keyboard... Let me explain.

About a week ago my laptop (r50p) suddenly started to exhibit the
problem of blanking out the display. Until you press on the case
(Where your wrists sit, either side of the trackpad) when it would
spring back into life, except that the screen was corrupted... Where
apps re-draw their content it then is fixed... Things not redrawn
(e.g. the KDE backdrop) stay corrupted.

This week it's worse... The blanking became much more frequent,
pressing the case somones results in only a temporary fix until you
press & hold down some pressure... Corruption sometimes sticks
around... Green dots under the cursor, etc...

pressing on the keyboard helps too...

Now when the display is dark, the system doesn't appear to be running
either. e.g. the clock will lose time. However the system doesn't
appear to be suspending in the usual ACPI manner, because the network
is still up when it recovers... The acpi sleep script does't run, the
moon doesn't come up on the LED's etc...

Then after I logged a call, I put a bit more pressure than usual on
the keyboard, and it's a bit better... Only two incidents this
afternoon. Leading me to belive it may be a loose connection under the
keyboard.

Question is, does anyone have a clue as to why I'd get this sort of
behaviour? e.g. screen dark, suspended processing, but not a real
sleep (e.g. not the lid switch). I'm going to remove the keyboard give
it a good bash & reset it tonight & see what happens...

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