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Hello, |
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I have an hp laptop that works except when the |
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screen goes blank (screen saver kicking in). If I boot the system and use it |
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for a whille, all is fine. If I leave the system for a short |
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while, I can never get it back after the screen blanks. No matter |
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which keys I touch the screen stays blank. I'm running |
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kde 3.5.8 on it. It's mostly a stable system. Once and while, |
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when it boots, the kernel just hangs, alway at the same place. |
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The first line starts with the word "clock". |
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I found this hack: |
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http://www.gus-mg.org/dig/dv9205us.html |
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which may be related to my problem. Somehow I'm guessing |
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it is something to do with ACPI (not sure). When I go |
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through the kde control center to {power control} -> |
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{laptop battery} -> {ACPI Config tab}, the all options |
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are just fuzzed out (unsetable). Ideas on getting this |
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working or another method to check the ACPI settings is |
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most appreciated. |
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The system boots just fine into XP and after the screen blanks |
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just touching the return key brings it back (like all of my other |
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gentoo laptops I manage for other folks). |
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I'm not doing anything different (that I'm aware of) with |
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the kernel compared to other systems. The laptop |
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has not always done this. At first, the clock boot hang |
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was rare. Now it happens more frequently, maybe every 5th |
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bootup. |
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I set the screen blanker to the clock option and that has seemed to |
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fix the recovery problem when the screen saver kicks in. |
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Ideas where to look to fix the clock boot hang problem |
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and setting the ACPI options are appreciated. |
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James |
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