laptop standby

[Michael T. Richter]

On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 11:28 -0700, Rares Vernica wrote:

> Do you people manage to make your laptop standby?


I've never seen a laptop successfully standby (nor hibernate).  That's
one Toshiba, two Sonys and a Haier.  More accurately, I've seen them
hibernate or standby (the first Sony didn't work with standby but it
could hibernate) -- it's the recovery that didn't work.

The only laptop I've got left to play with -- the Haier -- does both
hibernation and standby just fine.  Its behaviour is the same as the
others, though, so whatever the problem is could probably illuminate the
others'.  Upon returning from either state the video display gets
scrambled and displays a weird pattern that looks for all the world like
my screen is on fire.  I've run tests using software that writes to
logfiles to show that the system is up and running just fine after
either state (on all four machines, in fact), but the video malfunction
renders the machine unusable as a result.

What's weird is that a desktop machine that reports the same video card
has no problem with hibernation (but can't switch to standby).

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