Quoting Michael Scottaline <nbhs2@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:25:34 -0600 > Fritz Whittington <f.whittington@xxxxxxx> insightfully noted: > > <snippage> > FW>>Moment of truth, "apm -s" in a terminal session. Laptop > suspends. > FW>>Looking good. Hit power button and screen returns to where it > was. > FW>>Looks right. BUT -- I have no prompt and cannot execute any > commands. > FW> > FW>>I can hit enter and the curser moves. I can even type. But it's > like > FW>>my shell isn't doing anything. > FW>> > FW>>Any ideas? > FW>> > FW>>Thanks in advance for any help. > FW>> > FW>>MWood > FW>> > FW>> > FW>> > FW>How about a ctrl-c to quit the apm program so you can get the > prompt > FW>back? > =================================== > Good suggestion. Fritz might also "try apm -s &". Then hitting the > enter > key /should/ return his prompt (I think... ;-) ) > Mike Thanks for the ideas. I did a little more playing around and found that neither ctrl-c or the apm -s & work. For some reason, it's as though my command interpreter is just out to lunch. If I do manage to switch to another terminal session (happened a couple times, but not always) using <ctrl>+<alt>+F2, I can log in as root but cannot execute anything. Same problem. It seems the kernel isn't awake and working or something. Do you think I have to re-compile the kernel for my particular laptop support? I know Dell can be weird about this stuff. If so, how do I go about downloading the source through yum? Thanks for all the help. I really do appreciate it! MWood
