[SHR-u] black screen of death on resume

Stefan Monnier monnier at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Sep 30 16:07:49 CEST 2009


> When it next happens, put it by your ear, press the power button for
> up to 10 s (just to make sure).

> You *will* hear a very light noise of it truly powering off.

> Then you release and press again once, like a click, and it will boot.

> This is an effect outside the operating system.

This used to be a feature implemented in the earlier kernels, and was
later dropped.  Has it been re-added?  If so, in which kernel version?
In Debian's 2.6.29 it doesn't seem to be present.


        Stefan




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