[SHR-u] black screen of death on resume

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Wed Sep 30 16:18:47 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:07:49AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.

root at om-gta02 ~ $ uname -a
Linux om-gta02 2.6.29-rc3 #1 PREEMPT Tue Sep 1 23:03:59 CEST 2009 armv4tl unknown

I think this is a feature that is at a lower level than the kernel...

Rui



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