Dell 4150 & ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML

[Stijn Hoop]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:32:45PM +0400, Kirill Bezzubets wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:04:16AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > 
> > Yes I have. Resume has the same problem as ACPI sleep state S3 though, the
> > display stays off. Other people have reported the display coming back up
> > after about 30-60 seconds but I've never waited that long :)
> 
> Simply pressing Fn+F8 makes LCD alive again. It's DELL bug, they patched this
> one in the latest bioses, although they stopped writing new bioses for my
> old Laitide CPi log ago.

Hmm, that doesn't work here on my Inspiron 4150 BIOS version A06. It even
seems that S3 (at least on lid close) fails to turn off the LCD screen, from
the console. Furthermore, it doesn't come back in 30-60 seconds also. The
console does respond to CTRL-ALT-DEL though, so it's definitely just the
screen that doesn't work.

Unfortunately it seems the upgrade to a recent -CURRENT broke my X, so
I'm busy recompiling it now to see whether staying in X makes a difference.

--Stijn

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