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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.
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Cheers
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)
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