RE: [SLE] Suse 9.3 or kde problem with closing lid on IBM Thinkpads

I don't THINK I'm using SUSPEND2RAM. I never set it up. What happens is when the system idles for a while (I'm not sure how long) or if I close the lid, when I re-open it, the top 5% of the screen has a bunch of garbage in it. This offsets the entire desktop down about an inch. However, the mouse can go up in this "garbage" area of the screen. If I hit Fn+F7 (vga/lcd screen output), it resets the screen after going to vga-out, then back to lcd output. Then I'm back in business. Khanh Tran Information Systems Sarah Lawrence College

-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:06 PM To: Khanh Tran Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 9.3 or kde problem with closing lid on IBM Thinkpads

"Khanh Tran" writes:

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I just installed 9.3 and it's great, but I have a Thinkpad X40 which has a problem with the screen. If I close the lid and then open it again, I get about 5% of garbage on the top of the screen. It then offsets the mouse location so I have to click about 5% higher than the actual button.

You're using SUSPEND2RAM?

In that case read: /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave/README.suspend2ram

and note that you have to add to the kernel command line the following:

IBM Thinkpad X40 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode (Type 2371-7JG)

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Anyone know how to fix this? I've been running sax2 and just testing the config to reset the screen, but I'd like to not have to do this. Also, I set the action for closing the lid in the thinkpad config to not do anything (turned off suspend).

So, what is happening with your system once you close the lid? If you would do suspend2ram, the effect is known and fixed with the notes above...

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126