laptop standby

[C Hamel]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 18:16, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 11:28 -0700, Rares Vernica wrote:
> > Do you people manage to make your laptop standby?
>
> I've never seen a laptop successfully standby (nor hibernate).  That's
> one Toshiba, two Sonys and a Haier.  More accurately, I've seen them
> hibernate or standby (the first Sony didn't work with standby but it
> could hibernate) -- it's the recovery that didn't work.
>
> The only laptop I've got left to play with -- the Haier -- does both
> hibernation and standby just fine.  Its behaviour is the same as the
> others, though, so whatever the problem is could probably illuminate the
> others'.  Upon returning from either state the video display gets
> scrambled and displays a weird pattern that looks for all the world like
> my screen is on fire.  I've run tests using software that writes to
> logfiles to show that the system is up and running just fine after
> either state (on all four machines, in fact), but the video malfunction
> renders the machine unusable as a result.
>
> What's weird is that a desktop machine that reports the same video card
> has no problem with hibernation (but can't switch to standby).

You may add to that list, an HP Pavilion ze5570us.  Same results as you 
describe above: goes down fine, video is b0rked when it comes back up.  Major 
hassle.
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