My company recently purchased three new Thinkpad T40's with the ATI Radeon 9000 video chipset. I got lucky enough to score one.
A very aggravating problem has been found when running Red Hat Linux 9 on these notebook computers. The screens go into some kind of power saving that we can never get them out of. When running on battery it only takes what seems like a few minutes of inactivity. When running on AC power, it takes longer to happen, but eventually the screens go dark. As far as I can tell, the hard drive and cpu are still operating, but the screen just goes dark. The screensaver power management functions are not enabled in Red Hat for these machines, the default setting. This behavior does not occur on these Thinkpad T40 notebooks when running Windows XP Professional, and we do not get this problem on any of our other make notebooks (Sony, Fujitsu, etc.) when running Red Hat Linux 9. I'm hoping I do not have to kill all power saving features in the BIOS and can instead come to some kind of solution within Red Hat 9 to keep these machines from going into the terminal blank screen .. Thanks for the advice, Mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
