Subject: Re: More frequent Powerbook wake-up failures
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 18:42:41 MDT
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jim Cole wrote:
> Have you ever tried putting your PowerBook back to sleep when it didn't wake
> up properly? Only once since your original post did I have a problem waking
> my PowerBook up. I closed it again, waited for the green light to start
> blinking, and opened it back up. The second time around it behaved as
> expected.
There are two cases of the "failure to wake up" problem:
1. The PowerBook wakes up except for the LCD, i.e., the hard
disk spins up, is responsive to the keyboard, trackpad, etc.
You can actually "type blind" into an xterm window and
execute commands.
2. The PowerBook doesn't wake up at all, i.e., the hard doesn't
spin up, neither the keyboard nor the trackpad are
responsive.
In this thread, I've been talking about case 2. I have also
occasionally experienced case 1. Yes, for that case, simply
putting the PowerBook back to sleep and rewaking it makes it
wake up completely.
Before I reset the PRAM, case 2 was occurring on just about
every wake-up attempt. Now (so far) it hasn't happened again.
- Paul
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