-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1308312009350.7832@Telcontar.valinor> Hi, I have an ancient laptop ("Airis GEA N619", with Pentium IV (32 bit), 512 MiB ram, 80 GB HD), running openSUSE 12.3. The screen goes dark after some time both in text mode and X mode (graphics). I think it powers down the display. When this happens, I don't know how to wake it up. The laptop is active, I work on it via ssh, and it is running fine - but no display. I can blind type on it, too (if I know which terminal has a free prompt) In X I might be able to configure out DPMS. But text mode? I've never heard how to configure that in text mode. :-? Or any command to force the display to wake up? I tried the blue keys (Fn) on the laptop. No go. Actually one of them kills the machine further, it goes to sleep and it has no battery (guess). Video is "Intel Corporation i845" from "Uniwill Computer Corp". The doc says "Intel® Extreme Graphics". Display has no EDID info. AmonLanc:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard 10: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: _Znp.Ggh6IG4j794 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel i845" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x2562 "i845" SubVendor: pci 0x1584 "Uniwill Computer Corp" SubDevice: pci 0x9000 Revision: 0x03 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xdff80000-0xdfffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (30733 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002562sv00001584sd00009000bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel 3D Support: yes Extensions: dri Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #10 AmonLanc:~ # AmonLanc:~ # hwinfo --monitor AmonLanc:~ # So, no info at all about the "monitor" or display. AmonLanc:~ # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.16-default root=UUID=... resume=/dev/disk/by-label/Swap showopts splash=verbose loglevel=3 console=tty1 vga=791 AmonLanc:~ # The parameter "vga=791" is necesary, or display goes into unsuported modes, or lower resolution modes. The parameter "display=..." does not work here. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIiNBIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WoEQCcC9RePDMDJH+Wqr+exLumSSF8 N1AAnRn1wbmPyWc6ZL2vTmgI9NLnlswS =4blD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----