Ramón Gutiérrez wrote:
> i got the same problem here with my a75. That problem only happen in 
> Gentoo for me, i tried Debian, Slack, Ubuntu, mandrake and in all of 
> them it worked nice so i dont know how to get it in Gentoo.
> 
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> From: *Ian K* <omega_2_1@... <mailto:omega_2_1@...>>
> Date: Jul 4, 2005 6:38 PM
> Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Toshiba A70 Restart Problem
> To: gentoo-laptop@g.o <mailto:gentoo-laptop@g.o>
> 
> Hi there,
> I had Gentoo on my laptop for a while, but then I had to format the drive.
> Im of course putting Gentoo back on, but was wondering about something.
> Whenever I restarted the computer under Linux, a restart just didn't happen.
> It would shutdown fine, but just before the BIOS splash screen pops up,
> the monitor
> would go off(?) and the keyboard lights did not respond. (Caps lock). I
> would have to
> turn the laptop off with the power button and turn it on again. Kind of
> a pain.
> Do you know how to resolve this next time around?
> Ian
> 

That sounds like it's related to the power management features of your kernels.  Are you guys using apm or acpi?

Zac
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