Michel Dänzer writes: > 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.
Either way, the fact that blanking and unblanking works at the console should point to the X server doing something wrong, no? How do I find out which one does the blanking? And how does the console handle blanking? > > 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 LW is an M7, your pciutils are outdated. Indeed. Updated pciutils works here. Jerry Quinn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
