Yeah I tried that too but no luck. I know the Fn button works since I'm always able to pop open the DVD tray. > Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:53:13 -0500 > From: rob.townley at gmail.com > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] LCD blanks out overnight > > hmmm, usually ctrl-alt f1 would fix this. Sine that isn't working, > have u tried switching to external vga and back. That did the trick > for me on Dell Latitude C610's. > > On 9/9/08, Joe Tseng <joe_tseng at hotmail.com> wrote: > > I inherited an ancient Dell Latitude C840 and recently installed CentOS 5.2 > > on it. It worked fine for the most part, but when I left it overnight and > > came back the next morning, the screen blacked out and wouldn't come back > > unless I did a hard reset. Even though I turned off all the power > > management settings and left it set like a desktop, the next morning after > > that it still blacked out. I thought maybe it'd come back if I switched > > from X to a virtual text console, but that didn't do the trick. Has anyone > > seen this and what do I do to fix it? > > > > tia, > > > > - Joe > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows > > Live. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080909/defb99e8/attachment-0005.html>