Display messes up on screen blank or lid close on Dell i8200

[dubG]

Alright, there seem to be alot of posts about this but they seem to be a bit out of date and after trying everything I've read it still doesn't work... Here's the situation:

I have a dell inspiron 8200
video card nvidia geforce 440
running gentoo on gentoo-sources 2.4.22
I have emerged (and configured) nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (1.0.4496-r3)

While in X, if the screen blanks due to inactivity or I happen to close the lid, when I open it up or hit a button to un-blank the screen, the display comes back up at a much uglier resolution. It *seems* to be setting the X resolution to the same resolutioin as the console. Before setting up the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx drivers this happened as well only when the screen came back up the resolution changed AND the top of the screen was on the bottom half and it distorted and was completely unusable. But now I have it to the point wher eit comes back up and is usable, but the resolution changes and I can't seem to get it back without exiting and reloading X.

Does anyone have any clue as to what I can do about this? Thanks in advance

[orn]

Hi.

If you only use screen blanking this happens. If you however make the computer suspend on lid close you should be fine when it resumes from suspend. This only goes for 2.6.x though, I had the same problem with suspend in 2.4.x as with screen blanking.

Note that if you intend to use suspend, closing the lid works far better than making the computer suspend via apm -s.

Regards,
Örn Arnarson

[dubG]

I have an update. It is now *only* messing up the resolution after i close and open the lid. The idle blanker no longer causes me problems.

I have APM *disabled* in the kernel right now and in the bios trying to atleast get the display right before I try to get it working with APM. So it *shouldn't* be trying to suspend when I close the lid. And it doesn't, it just blanks the screen (from what I can tell). Any Ideas?

[cheese]

I have the same problem.
Have a Dell Latitude C840 - the same motherboard as the Inspiron 8200 and a Nvidia geforce4.

First ran RedHat 8 and now gentoo running vanilla kernel-2.4.26. Both gave the problem. First crashed my mashine, now after I disabled APM it still give the problem, but if I restart X its fine again.
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[opello]

on my i8200, i had/have (trying to get acpi working atm) apm with only the 'enable pm at boot time' if memory serves and it worked great (no lid close/open issues, or console/x blanking issues with A10 bios anyway
using nvidia-kernel 4496-r3 and nvidia-glx 4496

hope this helps, and if anyone has acpi and i8kbuttons, or the play/pause, stop, prev, and next buttons working with 2.6 please share as mine quit working with the new keyboard input system