[X4U] iBook unresponsive when lid opens

[Jerry Krinock]

on 05/02/23 05:18, Xavier Noria at fxn at hashref.com wrote:

> My wife has a brand new iBook 14''. When she arrives at home she takes
> the slept laptop from the bag and with the lid still closed plugs the
> adapter for the CRT monitor, and the USB cordless receiver of a
> Logitech mouse. Normally Word (from Office X) is always running.
> 
> Now and then but now always, when she opens the iBook the desktop shows
> for a couple of seconds, and then the screen turns black. When that
> happens there's seems to be no way to recover the Mac except
> hard-reseting it. Panther is up-to-date (well, I have yet to install
> yesterday's update).

My Powerbook G4 does this about 10% of the time.  The workaround is not to
hard-reset but to close the lid (or use a shortcut key if you have one set)
to put it back to sleep.  Then, after the sleep light comes on, wake it up
again, and most of the time that will fix it.  If not, try it again.  I'd
read somehwere that Apple said this was fixed with 10.3.8, but it is not.
If you ever figure out what you do to make it _always_ happen, please let us
know since many of us would like to to understand more about this.

Jerry Krinock
San Jose, CA   USA