[ltp] Thinkpad X40 and fedora 8: display blank after resume

Christos Papadopoulos linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:49:07 -0700


Hi Pete,

Thanks for the tip. I tried it, but it did not work. :-(

I should mentioned that I did look at thinkwiki, and did
what I thought was an extensive google search, but no immediate
clues came out.

Any other thoughts? The same laptop with FC4 worked fine..

Christos.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:36:42AM +0000, Pete Phillips wrote:
> Hi Christos
> 
> >>>>> "Christos" == Christos Papadopoulos <christos@CS.ColoState.EDU> writes:
> 
>     Christos> I hope someone can help me with this.  Just installed
>     Christos> fedora 8 on my thinkpad x40, intel 855GM graphics chipset.
>     Christos> Suspend works fine, on resume os comes back, but display
>     Christos> is blank.  
> 
> The usual solution is to add
> 
>    acpi_sleep=s3_bios
> 
> to the boot options - either in the grub menu.lst file or edit the
> kernel command line before boot.
> 
> Pete
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