On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:54:23AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> hi everyone.
> 
> i have a dell inspiron 5000e laptop, and you may recall, i've had
> various problems with apm and other things, most of which have now
> been resolved.
> 
> my latest problem is interesting, and is related to apm suspend, x11,
> and wscons virtual terminals. in all cases i can test this by pressing
> the latch/switch that closing the case depresses.

i forgot to mention; the apm `suspend' is actually just the screen
powering off & on, since i'm running apmd with `-a' (ignore bios
suspend/standby events when on line power), and i'm running on line
power.


> * if i'm running x11 on a virtual terminal, and i suspend, things work
>   fine UNTIL i try and switch to a text console. when that happens,
>   the screen goes black and then various pixels appear to cycle
>   various colours (usually deep blue or deep red). pressing
>   CTRL-ALT-Fx to cycle back to the x11 display doesn't seem to help.
>   the display is effectively unusable, but the machine is still
>   usuable for remote connections.
> 
>   note that before i try to switch into a text console then x11 works
>   fine after the resume.
> 
> * if i'm running x11 on a virtual terminal, and a text virtual terminal
>   is active, and i suspend and resume, things work fine. after resume
>   i can switch to the x11 virtual terminal and switch back to the text
>   one without problem
> 
> * if i'm not running x11, and i suspend and resume, things work fine.
> 
> it seems like a weird interaction between xfree 4.0.2 and wscons, but
> i have no idea where to start. any thoughts?

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