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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Toshiba A70 Restart Problem
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:53:20
Message-Id: 42D93B5D.6090909@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Toshiba A70 Restart Problem by "Ramón Gutiérrez"
1 Ramón Gutiérrez wrote:
2 > i got the same problem here with my a75. That problem only happen in
3 > Gentoo for me, i tried Debian, Slack, Ubuntu, mandrake and in all of
4 > them it worked nice so i dont know how to get it in Gentoo.
5 >
6 > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
7 > From: *Ian K* <omega_2_1@×××××.ca <mailto:omega_2_1@×××××.ca>>
8 > Date: Jul 4, 2005 6:38 PM
9 > Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Toshiba A70 Restart Problem
10 > To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o <mailto:gentoo-laptop@l.g.o>
11 >
12 > Hi there,
13 > I had Gentoo on my laptop for a while, but then I had to format the drive.
14 > Im of course putting Gentoo back on, but was wondering about something.
15 > Whenever I restarted the computer under Linux, a restart just didn't happen.
16 > It would shutdown fine, but just before the BIOS splash screen pops up,
17 > the monitor
18 > would go off(?) and the keyboard lights did not respond. (Caps lock). I
19 > would have to
20 > turn the laptop off with the power button and turn it on again. Kind of
21 > a pain.
22 > Do you know how to resolve this next time around?
23 > Ian
24 >
25
26 That sounds like it's related to the power management features of your kernels. Are you guys using apm or acpi?
27
28 Zac
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