On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:17:02AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:26:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 23/05/02 Bill Wohler did speaketh: > > > > > No idea on whether IBM will install Debian for you. I installed Debian > > > on my Thinkpad T20 without much fuss. The Cisco 802.11 card works out > > > of the box too. I've been happy with the laptop. > > > > I haven't seen too many problems with Debian on laptops now that the 2.4 > > kernel is reasonably stable. Running Woody and upgrading to 2.4.18 on my > > Sony > > VAIO fixed all my problems, except for one small bug in XFree86 with respect > > to the S3 chipset, so I'm waiting for someone to package X 4.2. > > As a long time linux user but a new debian user, I installed Woody, then > upgraded to sid > for the first time yesterday on an IBM X20 with Lucent orinoco card. > Everything works great > except one thing I haven't figured out yet. When I leave X, the screen goes > blank and I can't > get it back without restarting X or rebooting, so I can't get back to text > mode once I run X. > Probably something with the framebuffer stuff. >
I had Debian on a new Dell laptop about a year ago. I had the same problem, but the solution lay in properly configuring power management features, like console blanking, DPMS, etc. IIRC, the backlight would turn off fine when I was on a console, but it would be erratic when I was using X. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
