On Sam, 2002-11-16 at 05:50, Jerry Quinn wrote: > The machine is an IBM Thinkpad T30 with a fresh install of Debian 3.0 > on it. The LCD on this laptop will blank after about 5 minutes. > > If you are at the X display when it blanks, it cannot be unblanked again > except by doing a suspend and resume (close the lid, open the lid). > If you are at one of the virtual consoles, unblanking works fine.
Is the blanking done by the X server, or maybe the BIOS? In the latter case, there's hardly anything that can be done. > I notice that lspci thinks the chip is an M6 Mobility, but X thinks it > is an M7 Mobility. [...] > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LW LW is an M7, your pciutils are outdated. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]