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

[Vincent Poy]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, 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.

	Not when I tried it... With a Inspiron 8200 with the A10 BIOS, I
close the lid and it suspends but the LCD doesn't turn off so when I
resume, the LCD is on with the text from before the suspend but the
keyboard is alive but the LCD isn't alive...  Tried Fn+F8 but it made no
difference.


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