yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #985 - 7 msgs

[thom phillabaum]

Actually, pressing the power button is how I've been putting it to sleep 
(usually by accident when reaching for the delete key). The problem is the 
sleep/wake-up process. When it wakes up the video is hosed. You'll see what 
used to be the upper left part of the screen blown up about 4 times and 
overlayed with other parts of the video ram image, plus the color map seems 
screwed up too. Hmmm, I hadn't checked the depth of the screen. Just did an 
experiment. Was in 16-bit display mode, the video card wakes up apparently 
in scrambled 8-bit mode. Tried running and sleeping in 8-bit mode and the 
display comes back in 8-bit mode (with screwed up colormap) but the display 
is frozen otherwise... typing "reboot" blindly doesn't seem to do anything. 
This is a powerbook 3400c.

thom

>Message: 4
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:49:19 -0700
>Subject: Re: Looking for Mac powerbook 3400 users
>From: Ron Smith <ronsmith@ydl.net>
>
>I am not positive that the 3400 is one of these machines, but there are
>a few models that you need to press the power button to put it into
>sleep before closing the screen. Have you tried that?
>
>-Ron
>
>On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 11:43 PM, thom phillabaum wrote:
>
> > After I put the machine to sleep the video display is hosed upon
> > waking it up and nothing seems to fix it short of rebooting the
> > machine.

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