Hello Experienced Linux Users,
For those unfamiliar with my current mission, I am reviving older hardware (mostly 32bit machines) with lightweight distros of Linux for donations to kids overseas (and I am told there is a local tech).
This issue involves a Dell Inspiron 700m (1.6GHz Centrino, 1.25GB RAM), with Linux LXLE 18.04.3, 32-bit loaded. It tends to have the screen blank out during bootup and sometimes during operation. Otherwise, once booted and working it seems to operate normally and can surf the Net comfortably (using the OOTB SeaMonkey browser).
Now I don't think this is as much a Linux issue as much as it is a Dell hardware issue, since I have read online of others having the same problem, and them seeking solutions for it:
How to disable sleep and configure lid power settings for Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Linux: Suspend and Hibernation Status Report
From the Linux side, I don't know anything about Kali, but you should have power management options available which control what "close lid" will do on a laptop. I would set that to "blank screen only" and I'd probably completely disable suspend and hibernation, or anything related to those power saving options.
Anyone here installed Linux on Dell Inspiron 700m?
The gist of my understanding of this issue is that it has something to do with ACPI, hibernation and suspend settings, and a very small button lid sensor.
While I am using the machine (like right now) when the screen blanks, you just hit the button (it's more of a very small, stiff whisker near the right lid hinge) and the screen comes back on. A user indicated to me that she could not use the machine because of this issue.
I would like to resolve it so it will not have that problem. It's operational in all other respects.
Where it's made a little more difficult for me, being a long-time Windows user, finding the hibernation and suspend settings in Linux (LXLE) is not so obvious. Also, if anyone has mastered this glitch, I would appreciate learning what you learned.
Thanks in advance.
Hal
For those unfamiliar with my current mission, I am reviving older hardware (mostly 32bit machines) with lightweight distros of Linux for donations to kids overseas (and I am told there is a local tech).
This issue involves a Dell Inspiron 700m (1.6GHz Centrino, 1.25GB RAM), with Linux LXLE 18.04.3, 32-bit loaded. It tends to have the screen blank out during bootup and sometimes during operation. Otherwise, once booted and working it seems to operate normally and can surf the Net comfortably (using the OOTB SeaMonkey browser).
Now I don't think this is as much a Linux issue as much as it is a Dell hardware issue, since I have read online of others having the same problem, and them seeking solutions for it:
How to disable sleep and configure lid power settings for Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Linux: Suspend and Hibernation Status Report
Linux: Suspend and Hibernation Status Report – OSnews
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From the Linux side, I don't know anything about Kali, but you should have power management options available which control what "close lid" will do on a laptop. I would set that to "blank screen only" and I'd probably completely disable suspend and hibernation, or anything related to those power saving options.
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Anyone here installed Linux on Dell Inspiron 700m?
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The gist of my understanding of this issue is that it has something to do with ACPI, hibernation and suspend settings, and a very small button lid sensor.
While I am using the machine (like right now) when the screen blanks, you just hit the button (it's more of a very small, stiff whisker near the right lid hinge) and the screen comes back on. A user indicated to me that she could not use the machine because of this issue.
I would like to resolve it so it will not have that problem. It's operational in all other respects.
Where it's made a little more difficult for me, being a long-time Windows user, finding the hibernation and suspend settings in Linux (LXLE) is not so obvious. Also, if anyone has mastered this glitch, I would appreciate learning what you learned.
Thanks in advance.
Hal