Toshiba Port?g? 4000 laptop

[Russell Jackson]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:04:31PM +0200, Laurent Debacker wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 on a Toshiba Port?g? 4000 laptop. I'm
> running the kernel in ACPI mode, with Toshiba ACPI extension enabled.
> 
> When my laptop wake up, the screen becomes white from the bottom to
> the top, always brighter and brighther until completely white. However
> the screen is not perfectly white, it's a bit odd, a bit as if the LCD
> would be transparent. What I need to do is to switch the video output.
> 
> I always tried to suspend my laptop using the /usr/sbin/zzz command
> once. When it waked up, I think the disk's driver wasn't reloaded.
> Indeed when I asked FreeBSD to shut down, it couldn't sync the inodes.
> 
> I tried to suspend it using Gnoppix, and I got no screen problem.
> 
> I'd be glad to help you to enhance the ACPI system of FreeBSD. Just
> tell me what to type. And how to not loss all my inodes :p I don't
> want to pass another 10hours or so to reinstall and reconfigure my
> lovely FreeBSD.
> 
> I'm a C/C++/C# developper, but with not much real experience since I'm
> still a student.
> 
> Thanks!
> Laurent.
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The same thing happens on my portege 3480ct if I don't disable the
hw.acpi.video_reset sysctl knob. I also have a portege 4010 with a
broken keyboard (just got it off ebay). I'll try testing resume out on
it and get back to the list.

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Russell A. Jackson
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